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New SANS head dismisses advisers

Tue, Aug 11 2009 12:13 CET

byPetar Kostadinov

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New SANS head dismisses advisers

Alexei Petrov

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Tsvetlin Yovchev, the newly appointed head of the State Agency for National Security (SANS), has decided to dismiss all those who worked as advisers to former SANS head Petko Sertov, SANS said on August 11 2009.

This includes Alexei Petrov whose name was involved in several rows surrounding the work of the agency, created by former prime minister Sergei Stanishev, and who had been entrusted with fighting top level corruption and organised crime.

Petrov was one of the reasons for Roumen Petkov's resignation as interior minster in 2008. Petkov was later prosecuted and acquitted of revealing classified information.

Petkov resigned after admitting that he had had a personal meeting with two controversial businessmen Plamen Galev and Angel Hristov, commonly referred to by the media as the "Galevi brothers", back in 2006, when the duo were under police investigation.

When questioned in Parliament about the meeting, Petkov said that it was arranged by Alexei Petrov, who had worked as an interior ministry officer. These words became the basis for the charges pressed against Petkov by prosecutors.

Petrov, often linked by the media to Bulgaria's underground world, had served as a secret agent of the ministry and Petkov's words made this information public knowledge. The prosecutors claimed that Petkov had revealed classified information.

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