The Director of the “Military Police” Ivaylo Sotirov, whose life is threatened, is on a trip to Vietnam, bTV reported, citing sources from the Ministry of Defense.
He left three or four days ago and will be there until the end of October.
At a briefing on Friday, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Atanas Ilkov announced that Sotirov was assigned security due to information that there was a threat to his life.
The signal is being investigated and pre-trial proceedings have been initiated.
Yesterday, the Ministry of the Interior refused to give details about the threat – it is not clear whether it was sent directly or detected in another way.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Defense stated that at this stage, the Ministry of Defense has not received any information or signal related to a threat to the life of the director of the service.