Action of the National Tax Service and the Commission for Combating Corruption in the Customs Agency. There is an increased police presence at the site. There is also a gendarmerie.
According to unconfirmed information, the head of the Agency and his deputy were arrested.
“A few years ago, Plamen Tonchev (note editor, head of DANS) decided that he would send me to Blagoevgrad for a good punishment. That’s their basic scheme – when someone gets in the way, they send them out. Then I said that I will not fulfill their orders and left DANS”, Petya Bankova, director of the Customs Agency, told bTV.
Unofficially, the operation is related to an investigation into Nikolay Nikolov-Pascal and his connections through which smuggling was carried out.
“I will not allow smuggling to go on, if it is the state’s problem, let them claim it.” I don’t know Pascal, I don’t know who he is,” added Bankova.
According to Petya Bankova’s lawyer, notes about contraband channels that she planned to break up were seized from her office.
“The action is under conditions of urgency. Bankova is a former DANS employee who had a bad working relationship with Mr. Tonchev and therefore stopped being a DANS employee. Personal notes were seized from her home, as well as her husband’s consumer credit agreement. Her deputy is also being searched”, explained lawyer Adelina Natina.
More addresses in Sofia and the country are being checked. Three addresses were searched in Svilengrad – of a businessman and former customs officer and a customs officer, and one in Haskovo – of a former head of IARA, now retired.
2024-04-03 10:51:59
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