Serbia replied to us through Interpol that Petyo Petrov-Evroto was not arrested on its territory. The news was announced by the acting Minister of Interior Emil Dechev in an interview for the podcast "Counter-Comment" by journalist and vlogger Asen Genov, news.bg informs. The Serbs have checked all their systems, including the border control database, and it has not been established that he was on the territory and was arrested, Dechev pointed out.
He pointed out that Interpol-Belgrade responded to the Ministry of Interior that they had registered the request of the Bulgarian authorities to detain the former investigator and if he was caught, Serbia would notify Bulgaria.
According to Dechev, the main problem in this case is the leak from the Ministry of Interior and if it had not been him, Petyo Euroto could have been detained in our country. He disappeared surprisingly years ago and initially the services claimed that they knew where he was and would soon bring him back. A lot of time has passed since then, but there is no trace of Euroto, he added.
We recall that a few days ago, the Minister of Interior Emil Dechev stated in his statement at the Border Police Air Base in the "Vrazhdebna" neighborhood that the Ministry of Interior could neither confirm nor deny that former investigator Petyo Petrov, known as Euro, had been detained in Belgrade. "We have made our request to our colleagues in Belgrade to confirm to us how true this information is", said Dechev.
The Interior Minister added at the time that the information about the alleged detention of Pepi Euroto will be made public when they receive it.
The reason for the noise around Petyo Euroto was the information that appeared that he was detained in Belgrade, that he was under the protection of British services and had become their protected witness.
A court case is being conducted against Petrov for document fraud on a particularly large scale, for which he was charged in absentia, after he literally disappeared from Bulgaria a few years ago. The trial against him is ongoing in the Sofia City Court, and several court hearings have already taken place.