In the case of Ivelin The Banev-Brendo services have not done their job. The question is not how he entered Bulgaria, but how they have had no information about him since 2022 until now.
This is what Gen. told the BNR. Ivan Chobanov, former head of the National "Security" service, and added:
"Something rotten is again in the services, but it is difficult to comment. It is hardly a political umbrella. Rather, it seems to me that it is an oversight by the relevant competent services.
According to Gen. Chobanov, the tension between political leaders and formations, which is related to the services, especially who will lead them, affects their work, because "they are not left alone to do their work according to the law, and there is always some external influence":
"The law politicizes DANS. The paradox is that DANS essentially repeats the model of the old services - a model of total control. This is a model that has never been in Europe. And now it is not. The European services are based on a completely different principle. On the principle of threat. There is a threat - the corresponding structural units are created that counteract".
There is no democratic country in the world that creates services to spy on its own administration, he emphasized, and specified that this model is politically dangerous and is adequate for totalitarian models of government.