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The State Financial Inspection Agency launched an investigation into the Military Police in connection with the pro-Russia spy scandal, BNT has learned.
The legality of the expenses will be checked at the time the head of the structure was located. Brigadier General Borislav Sertov.
The military prosecutor’s office presented 4 volumes of new evidence against those arrested for espionage in favor of Russia. Two of the volumes contain classified material found during searches. The other two were questioned by witnesses. The so-called “resident” and juicy leader of the group is the former head of Military Intelligence Ivan Iliev.
The former head of the Bulgarian Military Police, Borislav Sertov, was also questioned in the case, as he was was responsible for the group that led the arrest of Ivan Iliev, when Iliev escaped and was later detained in the Russian embassy area.
Only the rapid alarm of the police and the gendarmerie led to the reconquest. Experts monitoring the development of the spy scandal in Bulgaria suggest that the former military intelligence officer may have sought political asylum at the diplomatic mission. And if there hadn’t been a quick arrest, the direction of the international scandal would have gone to another level.
The situation was such that Some of the policemen who were supposed to arrest Ivan Iliev went for coffee.. Researchers have suspicions that this coffee consumption was not accidental.
The shameful situation with the flight of the “residents” has not been commented on by the high military commanders for a week, although Admiral Emil Eftimov, chief of defense and Brigadier General Borislav Sertov, until recently Director of the Police has declared Military.
Meanwhile, “Military Police” officers told investigators that the scandal with the arrested spy was not the first in which military policemen showed strange behavior towards the Russian residence in Bulgaria, “24 Chasa” reports.
Since January, the Military Police, the specialized structure that protects military personnel and sites used by the Bulgarian army and NATO units, has no director. Three months ago, the government fired him gen. Borislav Sertov, who became defense attaché at the Bulgarian embassy in Moscow.
Sertov’s colleagues explain the new post with the senior NATO officer’s demonstrated close contacts with representatives of the Russian embassy in Bulgaria.
Military police are still commenting on the 2019 scandal, when a group of Russian citizens surprisingly turned up at a military site near Plovdiv, where there was specialized NATO military equipment. Among the guests was the Russian military attaché at the time in Bulgaria Vasily Sazanovich. In December 2020, the diplomat was declared “persona non grata” by the Bulgarian authorities for espionage and left the country. The officer who allowed the Russian citizens and the diploma to enter the NATO site was probably a lieutenant colonel. Dimitar Dimitrov from the regional structure of the Military Police. However, an inspection apparently did not take place, as months later Borislav Sertov promoted Lieutenant Colonel Dimitrov to a leadership position in Sofia and moved to the capital. This officer was also in charge of guarding the spy group discovered a week ago, when Ivan Iliev managed to escape in the first arrest.
As for the visit of the Russian delegation to the military unit near Plovdiv, it is explained by the close contacts of the diplomats with the then director of the “Military Police”. Sazanovic is also a guest on the official holiday of the “Military Police” together with the military attachés of the NATO member states.
It is unclear whether there is a link between Sertov’s release from the Military Police less than a month after Sazanovic’s expulsion from Bulgaria.
