The specialty in the Plovdiv customs is due to a new smuggling channel for cigarettes, but again connected to Nikola Nikolov-Pascal
An attempt to prevent the customs inspection of a heavy goods vehicle, which was stopped at the entrance of the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, loaded with cigarettes produced in a country outside the European Union, which had to pass transit through Bulgaria with a final destination – the Republic of Romania. It was reported that this was the first of a total of 15 heavy trucks to cross Bulgarian territory.
According to BNT, which first reported the arrest of Belyashki, although Captain Andreevo was at the territorial Directorate of Customs in Burgas, the Plovdiv Director of the Customs, along with two other armed staff, withdrawals and tried to release the suspended truck and the goods, the goods and the goods, was appeared on the border these days. Vidin and from there exported to Romania.
Again, according to BNT, the smuggling channel for cigarettes, patronized by Belyashki, was also linked to Nikola Nikolov-Pascal, who has been in Serbia for months and has been waiting for a decision by the Serbian court for extradition. The current chief of the Plovdiv customs was appointed to the post in March 2024 by the then Director of the Customs Agency Petya Bankova, who was arrested two weeks later on charges of Pascal’s smuggling channels.
Cleaning of smuggling accounts or actual exposure of smuggling channels and searching the NRA’s consideration?
« Obviously, players in this smuggled market are starting to clear their bills. It is commendable that the public authorities are actively involved, but all smuggled channels must be exposed and bear responsibility, Consider Demerdzhiev.
According to him, the prosecutor’s office in Bulgaria is selectively working and today’s action would not happen if the case had not fallen into the public attitude since November 2024, also in Plovdiv, where a smuggled channel of cigarettes was broken, but the staff of the State Security Council were withdrawn from the Deputy Chief of the BOP Plovdiv Directorate.
« Recently, the SGP has been involved in a special type of shares and this is associated with one name – Peevski. And my assumption is that in this action it stands by Peevski« , the former interior minister said.
In the meantime, a lawyer in the case against Petya Bankova and the group of defendants from April this year, that it was still far from moving to the court and was heard only on some sensational news, such as the one of her testimony against Assen Vassilev, after which she was released from the arrest. Until it is understood whether Nikolay Nikolov-Pascal, who is accused as the organizer of smuggling, cannot move to the court, as the prosecutor’s office must know if he will want a sentence for him in absentia, explained Petya Bankova’s lawyer.
If the smuggled smuggled cigarette channel today is also associated with Pascal, as expected, although unconfirmed by the prosecution, then the new investigation and arrest of the Plovdiv customs chief will gradually go to the familiar track of media interpretations instead of the court, the lawyer said.
Three declared as smugglers, chief of customs and a senior police officer in a boat (not counting the dog)
Meanwhile, DSB MP Yordan Ivanov has firmly denied allegations on some sites that he was linked to the chief of the Plovdiv customs Belyashki today.
