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Bulgaria's Interior Ministry acting against four officers who helped ‘The Insolents’

Wed, Feb 03 2010 14:59 CET

byThe Sofia Echo Staff

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Bulgaria's Interior Ministry acting against four officers who helped ‘The Insolents’

Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister.

Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev

A day after police officer Yordan Kostov was arrested for accepting a bribe to let an alleged member of kidnapping gang "The Insolents" out of jail, Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said that disciplinary proceedings were underway against four other officers alleged to have helped the gang.
 
Tsvetanov said that the group of four officers had contacts with the gang, which was broken up in special police operations that brought to an end a series of lucrative kidnappings in Bulgaria in the past two years.
 
Kostov is alleged to have let Pavel "The Pig" Petkov out of custody in return for a bribe reported to have been 6000 leva.
 
After the arrest of Kostov, reportedly a long-serving officer, his offices were sealed off and searched.
 
While out of jail, Petkov had acted as a guard keeping kidnapping victims from escaping, according to the Interior Ministry.
 
Speaking to Bulgarian National Radio on February 2, Tsvetanov said that since Anton "The Hamster" Petrov had been out on bail, two people who had previously been willing to give evidence against The Insolents had withdrawn.
 
Petrov was set free on 20 000 leva bail by the Sofia Court of Appeals on January 28 2010. Police had described him as one of the leaders of The Insolents.

 

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Anonymous peter Wed, Feb 10 2010 21:05 CET
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Will anything even happen when the accused jumps bail? to me 20.000 just looks like peanuts for a so called Bulgarian "business man"

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Anonymous Justice Wed, Feb 03 2010 18:37 CET
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Is there any other country where you can be charged with several kidnappings and other crimes and be relased on 20000 leva bail? How can that be? Too bad someone can't declare martial law for a week and use it to eliminate about 500 of the countries worst.


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