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– Andon Baltakov.
The former director general of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Andon Baltakov, claims that the apartment of the caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev was as “crowded” as his. In an interview with “24 hours” newspaper Baltakov, who resigned a month ago, says Yanev told him he had such an incident in 2015 when he returned from the United States.
A few days after leaving the BNR, Baltakov said before “Dnevnik”that one of the reasons for terminating his term early was that he had doubts about his security.
According to him, after returning from a business trip at the end of June, he found muddy steps in the living room, a broken part of a balcony door, and his clothes were scattered. Then he did not report it to the Ministry of Interior, but a few days later he informed the caretaker Prime Minister Yanev about the incident, after he was a guest on a BNR program. Baltakov told Dnevnik that there was no reaction from either Yanev or the caretaker Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov, whom he notified by phone. Yanev later called on journalists to tell Baltakov what Yanev had told him.
“What Mr. Yanev told me is just as shocking. I guess he hinted at the deep state, the backstage and how it works at certain levels. He told me how, after his return from the United States in 2015, he found a similar “To this day, it is unclear who, what and how,” Baltakov told 24 Chassa, adding that he did not say this in an interview with Dnevnik because he was worried. that “this is personal information”.
He says he did not report it to the Interior Ministry because “before the election,” I and the BNR could be used in a political context. “
The hypothesis of “we are sending you a signal to be careful” is more likely (as forensic scientists told me) I do not know politically or economically. field of political and business interests parties, public procurement companies, organizations that have benefited from the assets and creative resources of the BNR.The Court of Auditors shed light on many vicious practices, and in my time I gave transparency to public procurement. My actions to limit such practices have seemed threatening to some people, and I have been told several times, “Mr. Baltakov, this is Bulgaria, not America.” Whatever that means, and the fact that 18 months of trying to “make obedient” hit a rock, as if they left the physical threat as the only option, “Baltakov commented on the reasons for the incident in his apartment.
Among the motives for leaving the BNR, Baltakov points to a “coordinated action against my leadership” that began after the April 4th parliamentary elections. “Freedom of speech, to my great regret, has proved to be a variable.”
The former director general of the Bulgarian National Radio claims that there was a leak from the radio to the tabloid media, in which information appeared some time ago that he had caused an accident near Blagoevgrad, in which a man was injured but escaped. Baltakov’s version is that on June 1 he was returning from the Rila Monastery through the village of Smochevo.
“Shortly before I made a sharp (right angle) left turn, a cyclist jumped down at high speed (going downhill). The collision was inevitable. I immediately called 112, and the cyclist refused an ambulance. It took about 30 minutes, but no one I did not arrive. I called the Rila Police Department and asked when to expect their patrol. The police officer on duty told me that they did not have a 112 signal and asked how the victim was feeling and if he had any claims. I asked the cyclist and he said no claims and wants to go home. The police officer on duty told me that I could leave the scene of the accident and take the victim wherever he wanted. I told him that I would take the victim to his home in Blagoevgrad and if there were any questions, I would like to They call me and I will wait for the police in the parking lot of RTC Blagoevgrad. I got in the car and after I entered Kocherinovo, I got a call from 112 to ask me about the situation. I was laconic because I was driving. I explained that I would leave my bicycles. hundred in his home in Blagoevgrad and I will wait for the police in the parking lot of RTC Blagoevgrad. I left the victim at his home, then parked the car in front of RTC Blagoevgrad and waited for the police, who told me that they were only taking explanations, which they would send to their colleagues at the Rila Police Department, where the accident happened. to testify personally. As it happened. A week later I was in Rila to give explanations, “says Baltakov.
He claims the incident had nothing to do with his resignation, but was a test of the loyalty of certain people.
“But what surprised me was the speed with which the information spread through the yellow-brown media after I shared the information with colleagues at the Bulgarian National Radio on Monday. And it was even more horrible when I said what the profession of a cyclist is (only two people) and this appeared in these media at the minute. And here the Ministry of Interior cannot be blamed for the leak. Because I gave the information in an extremely controlled way to convince myself of the loyalty of certain people, “Baltakov added.
He was elected interim director Milen Mitev, who is the head of the Administrative Directorate at the Bulgarian National Radio. The election of a new CEO will be in October.
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