Bulgaria Police Arrest 2 over Radio Host Witness Threats

Tsankov called the police while being chased on Saturday. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

Bulgaria police have arrested a lawyer and a former prisoner for threatening former radio host Bobi Tsankov before he takes the witness stand at the trial of Sofia drugs boss ‘Jacket’.

The police reported that the two men from the village of Kazichene on the outskirts of Sofia had attempted to force Tsankov to change his testimony at the trial of the drugs boss.

‘Jacket’ (Sako) was arrested in Sofia late Friday after he chased former radio host Tsankov through the streets of the capital in his car.

‘Jacket’ is also reported to have made threats against Tsankov’s life. Tsankov called the police while being chased.

Tsankov said that he had been chased in his car from the South Park in Sofia to the traffic lights in the City Center from where he managed to escape. He alleged ‘Jacket’ was attempting to stop him writing about another famous mafia boss Metodi Metodiev a.k.a. Meto Ilienski being alive when he was thought by the authorities to be dead.

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