In 1998, particular law enforcement shot a fugitive in a Volkswagen, who afterwards died, the circumstance continued for 17 years.
Drug traffickers, domestic and agreement killers fill the Bulgarian preferred listing with a red notice to Interpol. Most of them have in depth legal data and have used time in prisons and arrests.
Nevertheless, there is an exception in the profile of fugitives from justice. This is Alexander Valkov. He is the only cop who has escaped to keep away from ending up in jail. (For others who have dedicated crimes or been convicted, but as previous personnel of the Ministry of the Inside, see the box beneath).
Nowadays Alexander Valkov is 51 several years aged and was convicted of the loss of life of a youthful man who shot his car or truck in 1998. Valkov disappeared as early as September 2015, when the Supreme Court docket of Cassation finally located him guilty and sentenced for 7 years, that he would have previously served if he stayed in Bulgaria and went to prison.
All through the investigation and the judicial proceedings, Valkov was an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
On September 16, 2015 Alexander Valkov attended the Supreme Court docket session in hopes of getting acquitted. Just after hearing the decision,
quickly leaves the corridor. And it disappears for a long time
His colleagues from the Interior Ministry commenced searching for him throughout the state 2 times right after the courtroom listening to. It was later also announced on the Interpol checklist.
There has been no trace of Alexander Valkov for exactly 7 many years.
In the late 1990s, Valkov was aspect of the elite Bureau for Operational Lookup (BOI) of the Ministry of Inside Affairs, which caught significantly perilous criminals hiding. Just one of them is the then most popular automobile thief Gancho Vachkov-Ganetsa. On December 2, 1998, Valkov and his colleagues from the business searched for Ganets in the vicinity of a tiny town north of Sofia. The specific policeman was driving a civilian bus in which his colleagues and other Inside Ministry employees traveled in individual cars. The motion proved unsuccessful and the policemen were called back again. Weary, all over 9 pm they established off to Sofia along the “Hemus” highway. Their column was topped by a “Volkswagen Golf” and this impressed the cops. Later, some of the policemen stopped for dinner at a roadside restaurant, and the other individuals, like Valkov and his colleagues from the business, continued on to Sofia. Then, on a straight extend straight away following the van, they seen the driving of the similar “Volkswagen Golfing”. The driver experienced turned on the high beams, blinding individuals in front of him. In the Yana station location, police automobiles turned right and stopped. So did the Volkswagen driver, pushed by
Airedin Mustafov, 19, from Slavyanovo
Interior ministry employees made a decision to check it out. They approached him and noticed that he had no quantity. The cops took out their badges and informed the driver to transform off the lights. Alternatively of complying with the purchase, Mustafov abruptly walked away and hit just one of the tires in the remaining foot of a single of the police officers. The policemen right away bought on the bus and begun chasing the fugitive. Right after a several minutes they joined him. From the proper entrance window, one of the officers was waving his tag and yelling at him to end. Mustafov this time obeyed. They went down to his home once more, but the younger guy, just like the very first time, gave the fuel and took off at excellent speed. Then 1 of Alexander Valkov’s colleagues fired two warning pictures into the air. He aimed the 3rd bullet at the rear tires of the Volkswagen. A chase has begun.
At 1 place, the law enforcement van identified itself on the correct aspect of a Volkswagen fugitive. Valkov, who was driving, determined that his situation was relaxed. He took out his weapon, loaded it with his left hand and fired 2 times at the car or truck. Just one bullet hit the ideal sill of the rear fender, and the other – in the rear door, but entered the passenger compartment and pierced the entire body of the driver Airedin Mustafov by means of the backrest. Shortly thereafter, upon moving into Sofia, he was detained by pursuers, who handed him about to the officers of the Fifth District Place of work.
Airedin was examined in the medical center with handcuffs,
but no injuries have been identified. Then they put him in custody. Just after an inspection of the Volkswagen that Airedin stole from his uncle’s garage, the bullet gap was found. Valkov and his colleagues from the office ended up also identified as to analyze Airedin Mustafov. Then they took him to “Pirogov” for an unexpected emergency procedure. Even with the initiatives of the doctors, the boy died on December 7 – 5 days soon after the shooting on the “Hemus” freeway.
The late Airedin was buried in his native Slavyanovo around Pleven. Hundreds ship him absent, which include numerous of his classmates from the city’s sports activities faculty. Mustafov was a football player in the youth staff of “Spartak” (Pleven). He also played 3 online games with the youth staff. So his mothers and fathers failed to attend the funeral. They are unable to return residence from Switzerland, where they are overseas. They found out about their son’s demise on the phone.
An investigation was introduced towards Alexander Valkov, which was closed many times. In 2000 he entered the Navy Tribunal. It is controversial no matter whether the law enforcement officer brought on the boy’s dying by means of carelessness, no matter if he was carrying out his official duty and quite a few other issues, irrespective of whether he could have foreseen that a deadly result would take place. Valkov was sentenced for the initially time to 4 and a fifty percent several years in prison. It took 12 yrs up to the second diploma, the qualification handed for murder in an psychological point out and, ultimately, for the negligent training of office features, with which he brought on demise by carelessness. The next instance, the Military services Courtroom of Appeal, identified him guilty of this charge in April 2015, but did not challenge a sentence because the statute of limitations for the crime expired. That is why Valkov goes to the Supreme Court in September in hopes that the selection will be upheld. There, on the other hand, the judges sentenced him to 7 several years in prison, just after which Valkov entered the list of fugitives wanted by justice.
Also on the list are the exchangers Lubo Ivanov and Bratya Galevi
Former policemen Lyubomir Ivanov, Plamen Galev and Angel Hristov are other people, but previous workforce of the Interior Ministry, who were included in the record of fugitives.
Galev and Hristov have been very first officers in the beret workforce and then brokers in the GDBOP. Despite the fact that they are police officers, there are no established crimes for which they have been investigated and convicted. They still left the technique in the 1990s and went into private business enterprise. They settle in the palace in the village of Resilovo in close proximity to Dupnitsa and are regarded as the rulers of the location. They are also engaged in road development. Extended soon after leaving the Ministry of the Interior – in 2008, the Galevi brothers had been accused along with their associates of blackmailing the operator of a taxi enterprise in Dupnitsa. They were being charged and taken into custody.
In 2009 they ran for parliament. The Kyustendil Court docket acquitted them, but the Sofia Court of Charm sentenced them to 5 many years in jail every single. The convictions were upheld in 2012, but the previous caps experienced presently fled. They have been wished by Interpol at any time because.
The other previous policeman, who was briefly wanted with a purple discover, is Lyubomir Ivanov – Lyubo Politskaya, who was the head of the felony police in one particular of the Sofia district workplaces. He was preferred in 2018 for his involvement in the legal team for the creation of unlawful cigarettes of Evlogi Staoev-Birmata and his small children. That investigation never ever produced it to court docket and Lubo the policeman turned himself in and was taken off the sign up.
In March of this 12 months Lubomir Ivanov was shot in front of his house in the capital. There are two inmates in the situation: the bodily killer and his aide. Subsequently, the GDBOP arrested an illegal cigarette manufacturing unit near Botevgrad, thought to be linked to Ljubomir Ivanov.
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