Bulgaria Interior Launches New Mass Anti-Criminal Action

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Chief Secretary, Kalin Georgiev, says "The Impudent" operation is history and a new one titled "The Thieves" is under way. Photo by BGNES

The Sofia criminal police arrested early Monday morning another notorious car thief known under the alias Kubeto (The Dome).

The information was reported by the Interior Ministry Chief Secretary, Kalin Georgiev, who spoke in an interview for the TV channel PRO.BG.

Georgiev said Kubeto is 39-years-old and was busted while trying to steal a BMW car in Sofia’s Lyulin district. The arrest came after a passerby saw the thief trying to enter the car and called the police.

Georgiev has a long wrap sheet, including three court sentences and 19 arrests. He has been recently released after serving a year and half behind bars.

The Kubeto arrest is part on the latest operation of the Interior, called “Apashite" (The Thieves), targeting criminal cases.

Regarding “The Impudent” action, Georgiev said it was well planned and executed and gave high praise to Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, for his involvement in the “Impudent” operation.

“From now on “The Impudent” are history and we continue forward,” Georgiev says.

An extensive police operation, codenamed “The Impudent” began in mid-December, resulting in numerous arrests of a gang alleged to have carried out over two dozen kidnappings of Bulgarian businessmen and their relatives, one of whom has not been since he disappeared in April.

As series of follow-up police raids has resulted in the successful detention of several other kidnappers. The courts have refused bail to most of those suspected of being the ringleaders, and have allowed release on bail to only a few of the less significant gang members. Some appeals against detention are expected early in January 2010.

A few of those arrested have made confessions to the police, confirming their roles in the gang’s activities. The information provided in this way has enabled the security forces to widen their operations, with the last reported activities ongoing at the end of December.

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