Bulgaria Interior Minister: Policemen Are Helping Organized Crime

Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetanov said there must be police employees supplying information to organized crime groups. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria’s Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, admitted Friday there were people within his Ministry who might be helping the organized crime.

“Unfortunately, I won’t say there aren’t any [Interior Ministry employees helping criminals], because you can see what are the results in the Internal Security Directorate. Today as we speak as special operation is underway investigating a case, in which employees of the Interior Ministry are involved. I don’t wish to specify if that is regarding the abductions. I am talking about crimes that are being committed in Bulgaria,” Minister Tsvetanov said when asked to comment on the claims of MP Atanas Atanasov that there were people inside the Interior Ministry who were providing information to organized crime groups.

“I am convinced that we will achieve a higher rate of solving criminal cases. You saw how we solved the case about the kidnapping and murder of Stoyan Stoyanov – we untangled a whole organized group of those who ordered, organized, and executed the crime. I am sure that if we have stricter sentences, those persons will get what they deserve,” Tsvetanov explained.

Tsvetanov has thanked the police and prosecutors in the cities of Varna and Burgas who worked on Stoyan Stoyanov’s case. He also said there were 1-2 cases of abduction that the police have made progress on but still needed a little time to resolve them successfully.

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