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President suspends Interior Ministry Secretary General

Zhivko Kotsev
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On a proposal from the caretaker government, the President signed a decree suspending the powers of Chief Commissioner Zhivko Kotsev as Secretary General of the Interior Ministry and dismissing him from his post, the Head of State's press centre announced. The government's motive was "a serious violation of the law on the Interior Ministry and actions that damage the prestige of the ministry". 

On 4 April, Kotsev announced that he was leaving his post of his own free will and that he had decided to pursue a career outside the Interior Ministry. A day later, in the presence of former Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov, he withdrew his resignation, saying that it had been provoked and made under enormous psychological and moral pressure. The college sent to the inspectorate of the SJC the signal of the former Minister of Justice Atanas Slavov that senior judges had pressured Kotsev to resign, BTA has learned.

Meanwhile, the College of Prosecutors of the Supreme Judicial Council dismissed Maria Pavlova as Deputy Prosecutor-General after she was sworn in as interim Minister of Justice. 

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