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One of the active military intelligence officers sang about the anti-state activity.
Military policemen were “smoking cigarettes” and “going to the bathroom” when Ivan Iliev left the Military Prosecutor’s Office building.
The resident’s wife, who recruited a senior official from the Defense and Military Intelligence Ministry to spy for Russia, was the sister of the late Rem Vyakhirev’s secretary.
This is stated by people close to the family of former military intelligence chief Ivan Iliev. He has been identified by the Prosecutor’s Office as the organizer of the spy network, discovered on Thursday by the Sofia Military District Prosecutor’s Office and SANS.
Rem Vyahirev, who died in 2013 at the age of 79, is an iconic figure in the 1990s. During his lifetime he earned the nickname The Gas King of Russia. He has been Chairman of Gazprom for years. The idea of the creation of the gas giant dates back to 1986 and is his. At the time, Vyakhirev was deputy minister of the gas industry and the minister was Viktor Chernomyrdin, who later became prime minister of Russia.
However, it is unclear when Galina’s sister was his secretary. The Bulgarian services knew nothing about family ties.
According to the indictment, Galina played an important role in the spy ring. As a Russian citizen, she had easier access to the Moscow embassy in Bulgaria and was therefore tasked with transmitting classified information.
Following the decision of the Foreign Ministry to declare Alexander Zinkin persona non grata, it can be assumed that he and the so-called Zinyakin, to whom he gave the information, are the same person.
Ivan Iliev and Galina are retired. He was born in 1947 and his wife is in her early 60s.
Almost 15 hours
two compositions of
Sofia
military court
I looked at the measurements
for arrest
of the five arrested in the spy scandal. The volumes of evidence collected, which are 44, were presented by the prosecutors to the court at 6.30 in the morning on Sunday, and the last measure ended the next day around 5. The media was not allowed in the Sofia Judicial Chamber building. .
In fact, there are six defendants, but one of the two current military intelligence officers was not brought before the magistrates. The reason is that he cooperated and confessed. Therefore, a bond was given.
However, his colleague from military intelligence, DV, remained in detention. From the records it is clear that
one of
Participants
in spyware
it was an effort
quite active
“You gave a lot of material last time. 4 batches. I saw what you gave to the flash drive. Good,” praised the resident. However, it is not clear to whom his words are directed.
The other detainees remain behind bars: Ivan Iliev, his wife Galina, Lyubomir Medarov, head of the classified information sector of the National Assembly, who is also a former intelligence officer, and the deputy head of the army budget and spending department in the Ministry of Defense. Peter Petrov.
Colonel Petrov’s move ended first on Sunday around 5.30 pm According to his defense, it was unclear whether the documents found were secret.
After him were the resident’s wife, Lyubomir Medarov and Ivan Iliev.
After the hearings, Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev wrote on Twitter: Another “reform” almost closed the military justice. Several of the other judges sat for almost 24 hours, until 5 this morning. Bulgaria can be proud of these magistrates!
Geshev spoke about the problem of the lack of military magistrates in our country on Saturday. He then explained that they had to search for prosecutors from across the country.
Meanwhile, the Sofia Military District Prosecutor’s Office has launched a second investigation into the espionage scandal. This is because the Military Police officers allowed Ivan Iliev to leave the Military Prosecutor’s Office building without problems on Thursday. The uniformed officers explained that this happened because they smoked and another was next to the bathroom. Iliev seized the moment and left the building. Two hours later, he was seen near the Russian embassy.
The Military Court of Appeals of Sofia will know the measures to keep the detainees in custody.
We expelled two more diplomats: Zinkin from the Ivan Iliev recording with his wife and his colleague, First Secretary Maxim Ribkin.
Alexander Zinkin and Maxim Ribkin are the next diplomats of the Russian embassy, who were declared persona non grata in our country after the spy scandal on Friday.
The prosecution has opened a criminal case against the two for their illegal intelligence activities in Bulgaria, the state prosecutor’s office announced on Monday. The Foreign Ministry reacted immediately and gave them 72 hours to leave the country. They have immunity and cannot be arrested. That is why the case has been dropped.
Alexander Zinkin and Maxim Ribkin are the first secretaries of the embassy, as are most of the Russian diplomats expelled from the country in the last year and a half.
Alexander Zinkin was mentioned in the recordings of resident Ivan Iliev and his wife Galina, which the prosecution released on Friday. She asks him about the last name of the man she will meet at the Russian embassy, and mispronounces it as Zinyakin, and her husband replies that he is Alexander. Even then, “24 Hours” wrote that he was one of the first secretaries with the surname Zinkin. According to SANS, the first two secretaries received secret NATO documents from former and current military intelligence officers arrested through the wife of resident Ivan Iliev. The wives of diplomats Elena and Evgenia were close to the resident’s accused wife and many of their meetings were recorded.
“This next unfounded action by the Bulgarian authorities will not contribute to the construction of a constructive Russian-Bulgarian dialogue. The Russian side reserves the right to retaliate,” the Russian embassy in Bulgaria wrote on Facebook immediately after Zinkin and Ribkin left. declared persona non grata.
Earlier on Monday, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko announced that there would be retaliatory measures, citing a statement by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who commented on the capture of the spies.
On the same day, the Prime Minister met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who expressed his full support for Bulgaria in the case of spies.
“In NATO, we must all stand united and in solidarity with each other.” Political will is very important for this, “Stoltenberg said.
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