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DIMITAR DIMITROV
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This is part of an essay for the former heads of the Bulgarian special services. The idea was born after successive shifts of men who know the most important secrets of the state. In the previous article we told you about The 6 intelligence officers №1 – diplomacy, politics and a 10-year sentence for Kirov.
Mayor, consul, head of the Office of Defense at the Prosecutor’s Office, Secretary of Security in the government. These are just some of the positions that continue the careers of the heads of the National Security Service. According to speculation, this is the structure that hides the most personal secrets from the lives of politicians. The guards are inseparable from the heads of state and witness all their meetings and habits.
Gen. Rumen Milanov for example, he retired as head of the NSO in 2007. (Interview with him read below). His career before that was also impressive. He was the head of the Traffic Police, the Gendarmerie and the NSCOC (now the GDCOP). After leaving the NSO, Gen. Milanov is not out of work. He is already an associate professor at UACEG and teaches. He also started working as a security chief in the corporation of his friend from the barracks and one of the richest Bulgarian businessmen, Tsolo Vutov. Two years later, when GERB came to power, Boyko Borissov called him for the first time and invited him to become secretary of the National Security Council.
“I returned to government work with few reservations. But in the name of ideas I did it and then I left the company of Mr. Tsolo Vutov. I worked in the Council of Ministers for 3 years as an advisor to the Secretary of the Security Council, ”recalls Milanov, who returned to Vutov and held senior positions in his company.
In addition to being secretary of the National Security Council, Rumen Milanov also took over the Center for the Prevention of Corruption (BORCOR), a structure that later merged with the KPCONPI. After returning to the civil service, Milanov finally left in 2012 and returned to the private sector and universities, where he still teaches today.
He is the successor of Rumen Milanov at the top of the NSO gen. Dimitar Dimitrov, who headed the service from 2007 to 2012. Also as a gen. Milanov retired when he reached the age for it. Then Dimitrov returned to his hometown of Etropole and worked as the executive director of the large logging company “Factory Mediket”. In the local elections in 2015, he entered politics as a candidate for mayor of Etropole. He is supported by the ABC of President Georgi Parvanov, with whom he was head of the NSO, and the BASTA of former GERB MP Emil Dimitrov, with whom he is a cousin.
Dimitrov won the election and became mayor. He is the mayor to this day, in 2019 Etropole elected him for the second time.
He is one of the most famous heads of NGOs Todor Kodzheikov, who guarded Presidents Zhelyu Zhelev and Petar Stoyanov, as well as Boyko Borisov as mayor. His career in the service reached its peak in 2013. The following year, however, Kodjeikov resigned for personal reasons and left the post. It was rumored at the time that his resignation was due to the MRF, which he runs together with the BSP in Oresharski’s cabinet. In January 2013, when Kodjeikov was already head of the NSO, albeit temporarily after Dimitar Dimitrov’s retirement, Oktay Enimehmedov aimed a gun at the head of the party’s honorary chairman, Ahmed Dogan, and a scandal erupted. Then it turned out that Kodjeikov’s resignation had nothing to do with this case.
A year after leaving the NSO, Kodzheikov returned to public service under the second GERB government and headed the state Air Detachment 28. For 6 years he headed the structure responsible for special purpose flights of state agencies. A month ago, Stefan Yanev’s caretaker government replaced Kodjeikov.
Kodjeikov’s successors also hold public office after the NSO. The longtime policeman Angel Antonov led the service from 2014 to 2018. He left after several of his subordinates sent signals to the Military District Prosecutor’s Office about abuses in the service. An investigation was launched, and Antonov was sent as Bulgaria’s consul in St. Petersburg, where he still works today. A Dancho Dyakov, who left the NSO in 2019, went to work in the prosecutor’s office, becoming deputy head of the Bureau of Defense under Ivan Geshev.
He is the longest-serving head of the NSO gen. Dimitar Vladimirov. He headed the service for 12 years – from 1992 to 2004. After retiring, he started a private business in a field that was painfully familiar to him. He owns a security company run by his son.
Expect in hours – where are the former chief secretaries of the Ministry of Interior
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