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Todor Staykov was engaged with private business, it was Border Police Assistant
He was buried in Karnobat
The next day, a man and a woman tried to smuggle 18 kg of cocaine to our southern neighbor for BGN 5 million.
The former host of the Burgas Traffic Police, Todor Staykov, hanged himself in Turkish custody after being detained with 14 kilograms of drugs. On Sunday morning, the 50-year-old was buried in his hometown of Karnobat. The locals were surprised by the news.
Todor Staykov enjoyed great respect among his fellow citizens. According to them, he had no family ties to his other famous fellow citizen with the same surname – the alcoholic boss Minyo Staykov. The businessman has been detained for 2 years on charges of embezzlement of EU funds and of leading a group of illegal distribution of products subject to excise duties.
It is not yet clear what drugs the former Transit Police host was carrying, but according to people familiar with the matter, it was marijuana.
It’s Staykov
worked before
5 years in
Road police
He then began to develop a private business, opening a car diagnostic service in Burgas and Karnobat. In recent years he has also been an associate of the Border Police.
On September 4, he entered Turkey through the Malko Tarnovo border checkpoint and was detained on Turkish territory. A few hours after his arrest, local police found him with a noose around his neck in the remand center.
Through his colleagues in Bulgaria, the Turkish authorities contacted his relatives to retrieve the body.
A hearse from a local funeral home brought the body from the border to his native Karnobat. Staykov is divorced and has an older son.
A day later, again at the Malko Tarnovo border checkpoint on the way to Turkey, two Bulgarians, a 51-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, were arrested at 6.30 am after 18 kilograms of cocaine were found. in your car. This was announced on Sunday by Burgas District Attorney Georgi Chinev. At free market prices, the drugs cost more than BGN 5 million.
“This amount poses a great public danger to criminal activity,” he said.
According to him at this stage
there was no connection
between the two
case
Supervising prosecutor Manuel Minev also explained that the man lives in Burgas, but has a registered address in Varna, and the woman is from Burgas. He did not release details due to the investigation.
Both were controlled at customs by the risk method. His car was diverted to a special room for a thorough inspection.
In the white Hyundai they were riding in,
Customs officials
by contrast
17 bags
cocaine, hidden
in the trunk
in the department of the spare tire, specified the deputy chief of TD “Customs of the South Sea” Vasil Indjov.
The two will be charged with complicity in a crime of possession of cocaine and attempted smuggling from Bulgaria to Turkey, which provides for a more severe punishment:
deprivation of
freedom of 15
up to 20 years and fine
from 200 to
300 thousand BGN
The two were detained for 72 hours and the court will be asked to extend their detention. The man and the woman were not convicted.
After the arrest of the two, their homes were searched and in one of them elements related to the case were found. Separately, the police also found 5,000 Swiss francs and 200,000 euros.
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