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Head of Bulgaria's General Directorate Combating Organised Crime dismissed

Lyubomir Yanev
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The director of the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime, Lyubomir Yanev, has been removed from his position, BNR reporter Nikolay Hristov informed. In an interview with Nova TV, Yanev said he had been reassigned to a new unit of experts at the Ministry of Interior. Our reporter has learned that Kalin Stoyanov, who used to head the department of undercover employees of the CDCOC, has taken Yanev’s position.

Yanev is yet another leading figure in the system of the Ministry of Interior to be replaced after Chief Secretary Ivaylo Ivanov, the Chief of the Sofia Police Department Georgi Hadzhiev, the Director of Internal Security Stefcho Bankov and others.




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