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Border police have made an exception for Goranov

Border police have made an exception by letting former Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov leave the border in a wanted car. This is clear from the internal rules of the Border Police, quoted by “Free Europe”. According to them, when a wanted car is found, it must be stopped and detained by the border guard on duty. The rules are not publicly available.

Over the weekend, it emerged that last Friday Goranov tried to cross the border into Serbia in a wanted Toyota. Instead of being detained at the border, however, Goranov turned and returned to the interior of the country, and when he later reappeared at the border, but in another jeep and accompanied by the boss of a large bus company, he was allowed to cross into Serbia. . Goranov’s version is that this is a mistake, and the Toyota has been cloned.

“Things are not as simple as some have tried to explain,” Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov said yesterday. He explained that the behavior of the border police is being investigated. The results of this inspection have not yet been announced, nor is it clear when it is expected to end.

According to the ordinance on border checkpoints, uploaded on the website of the Border Police, the border control authorities “detect and detain violators of the state border, wanted persons and vehicles on the territory of the border checkpoint.” “Sega” is waiting for answers from the press center of the Ministry of Interior about the internal rules cited by “Free Europe”, as well as what is the procedure for identifying wanted vehicles during a checkpoint – how to do with the car and what are the consequences for its driver .

According to the Law on the Ministry of the Interior, the police authorities can temporarily seize an item for which there is a search warrant. If the person refuses to hand over the property, it is seized with a protocol and deadlines run in which the state searching for the property can seek it from the Ministry of Interior.

Same cases, different outcome

“Free Europe” tells the story of December 11, identical to that of Goranov, but with a completely different outcome. Kirilka Dimitrova’s family travels to Turkey to go shopping in Edirne. However, at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, it became clear that their car had been declared wanted by Interpol. “Although the border guards showed understanding and told us that sometimes such things happen, they just took us out of the car and confiscated it on the spot,” Dimitrova said. “We were not allowed to turn around and leave, like Vladislav Goranov,” she added. According to her, after it is established that their car is wanted, like Goranov’s, the procedure lasts about an hour. “We pulled aside, looked at the documents, inspected the car as described in their procedures and told us to either call someone to pick us up or take a bus to Sofia,” the woman said.

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