"We were not informed about the action in the "Customs" Agency. If it turns out that there is no evidence, this is an action to intimidate Ms. Petya Bankova," resigned finance minister Asen Vassilev told journalists, quoted by "Focus".
He strongly hopes that this action is not directed against the effective work of Mrs. Bankova.
"Since she became head of the "Customs" Agency we have a record amount of drugs seized, including 170 kg of heroin at the port. On a signal from the Austrian government and other services, more than 20 customs officers were dismissed, including the heads of border posts and the heads of shifts where smuggling is going on. The other thing that Mrs. Bankova managed to do is that we already have customs officers from the USA on the "Captain Andreevo" and in Burgas.
We are expecting customs officials from England on "Captain Andreevo", as far as I understand today, the action took place before her meeting with the ambassador of Austria, so that Austrian customs officials would also come. We have to wait and see what evidence DANS and KPCONPI will produce. If there is a problem with corruption or something like that, we will take the appropriate measures," Vassilev also said.
Who is the relatively ostentatious appointed head of the "Customs" Agency, whom the outgoing finance minister is so picky about. According to the investigative journalist Grigor Lilov, Petya Bankova, in addition to being a proud graduate of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a lawyer from the South-West University, famous for its mentees, and a doctor of sciences from UNIBIT, is a long-standing senior official of the native Ministry of the Interior and the nefarious DANS.
She is a relative of Rumen Spetsov - the head of the NRA. and she herself was at one time the head of the NRA Dobrich, from where and at what time the career of this cousin of hers started. You should know who Spetsov is and how Asen Vassilev defends this swindler tooth and nail. Therefore, in addition to the restructuring of customs by the finance minister, it is logical to mention the name of Asen Vassilev - it is even mandatory, Lilov also wrote on his Facebook profile.
With this biography, Bankova ranks with such luminaries of the native legal thought, who walked the same paths, as Ivan Geshev, Delyan Peevski, Borislav Sarafov and most of the former and current bosses in DANS.