Asked by journalists if he will resign, Vasil Kostadinov, who goes to the unit to assist the Minister of the Interior, replied: “I wish you a nice day”
It is not yet clear whether the chief of police in Stamboliyski will resign from his post
Vasil Kostadinov is no longer the director of the police in Plovdiv. By order of the Minister of the Interior, Chief Commissioner Kalin Stoyanov, he was removed from his position and went to the support unit of the Minister of the Interior.
Until the appointment of an incumbent, one of Kostadinov’s deputies will act as chief.
His resignation was requested on Wednesday by Interior Minister Stoyanov due to gaps in the investigation into the murder of Dimitar Malinov – the 24-year-old man disappeared on July 20 and 7 days later his body was found buried in a shallow pit.
Chief Commissioner Stoyanov also demanded that Angel Kerpiev, the head of the RU in Stamboliyski, leave his post. So far he refuses.
“I was appointed under a law in which resignation does not exist as a concept. There are other forms.”
Kostadinov cut off this in front of two national televisions hours before Stoyanov suspended him.
On Thursday morning, before the minister’s order, neither had any intention of leaving. Then they met with relatives of the murdered boy in Stamboliyski. The gathered people shouted after them “Mafia”.
Asked if he would reconsider his decision to go to another post, Kostadinov told reporters: “I wish you a nice day.”
9 months – as long as one pregnancy, he was in charge of the Plovdiv police. Before heading the second largest directorate on October 24 of this year, he was briefly its deputy.
He was appointed in Plovdiv during the caretaker government, when Boyko Rashkov was the interior minister. Before that, he was in charge of the police station in Sadovo, and then in Rakovski and Parvomai.
For his short stay in the director’s office in Plovdiv he did not shine with nothing, career policemen are categorical. And the murder of 24-year-old Mitko in Tsalapitsa has spilled the beans, and this has prompted the minister to demand his resignation.
“It’s only a matter of time”, think people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. And they comment that it is a moral act for him and the head of the district in Stamboliyski Kerpiev to retire.
According to long-time police officers, the “Tsalapitsa” case is an example of how a crime was “sleeped over” by the law enforcement authorities.
“They were silent for more than a week, apparently it never occurred to them that it was a murder. And only at the last moment did they begin to explain, when everything was already deeply ruined. The minister cannot ask for your resignation, and you oppose him that you will not give it, given that you have a death case of a young person.
If you had done your job, no one would have wanted to remove you”, commented policemen who have spent years at the Ministry of the Interior.
They assume that Kostadinov was instructed by a person in a high position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia not to resign. He was also from Plovdiv, and not long ago the minister also asked him to resign, but something remained silent.
“This stubbornness is not typical for the Ministry of the Interior, and the next step is for Kostadinov to be assigned a disciplinary inspection. And in such cases, whoever is not checked, no violations were found on him”, say people from the system.
Word has it that the Plovdiv director was expecting another development for his career growth, but the murder in Tsalapitsa messed up his plans.
One of his current deputies was supposed to take over the directorate in Plovdiv, and Kostadinov himself was to be fired in place of the retired head of the Gendarmerie Directorate, Todor Grebenarov.
Long-time police officers say that in the last 9 months the Plovdiv directorate was not well managed. And they point to Kostadinov’s previous experience, which was mainly in small settlements, as the reason. They find the infamous action on St. George’s Day in a Plovdiv night club, where 400 people were stripped to be searched, inappropriate, to put it mildly. The result was the discovery of a negligible amount of drugs.
Kostadinov’s battle with road trauma is also shown to be unsatisfactory and Plovdiv remains one of the leading cities in terms of accidents, injuries and deaths. The shares held by him go in the “half-way” column.
Under his leadership, the Plovdiv police became one of the most closed in terms of providing information to institutions.
To check whether there is a connection with the murder of Dimitar Malinov, a European arrest warrant is being sought for Rangel Bizyurev, who had a pre-purchased plane ticket. It is being clarified whether he participated in the murder of the 24-year-old boy.
Dimitar Malinov disappeared on July 20 and was found dead a week later.
On Monday, the two twins Borislav and Valentin Dinkovi from Tsalapitsa were arrested.
Sources from the investigation claim that it was one of the two who showed the place where they buried Dimitar’s body.
The Dinkov twins in court. Photo: Nikola Mihailov.
An inspection has been ordered at the regional police directorate to clarify in detail the actions taken by the officers.
2023-08-03 20:00:00
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