Ahmed Emin (45), head of the political cabinet of Ahmed Dogan, leader of the junior partner in the ruling coalition The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, was found dead on October 17 2008, the Interior Ministry said.

The ministry said Emin died from a gun shot and it was most likely a suicide case. Emin's body was found in a building in Sofia' Boyana neighborhood close to the house where Dogan lives.

Interior Ministry's general commissioner Pavlin Dimitrov told Bulgarian National Television (BNT) that Emin has used his legally-owned weapon to commit the suicide.

As head of the political cabinet of Dogan, Emin has always been considered as one of the well-informed members of the MRF about the party's internal affairs.

The MRF has said that it was shocked by the news of Emin's death. His father Emin Hussein, who lives in Kozitsa village, told BNT on October 18 that his son was not capable of committing a suicide and he was most probably a victim of political infighting.

Ahmed Emin is survived by two daughters and a son. His death happened hours after police found  the body of leading forensic pathologist, professor Stoicho Radanov (76), hanging at a kindergarten playground in Sofia's Ivan Vazov neighbourhood.

Again police believes that the cause of death was a suicide. Radanov's name was involved in a row several months ago on two court cases of great public interest. One of the cases was about the death of Angel Dimitrov, also known as "Chorata" and the other about the death of teenage sisters Rositsa and Hristina Belneiski.

Radanov had worked on both cases as the forensic specialist. In both cases he made comments in the media before the end of the expertise, which was the reason for the defence teams on both cases to ask for his removal from the case. His statements won him the criticism of some of his professional colleagues, who expressed doubts about the ways in which he worked.