Brendo got here to our nation with the mysterious “Piper”, flew illegally throughout Europe and landed in our nation in 2022

Needed “cocaine kingpin” Evelin Banev-Brendo, who surrendered in Sofia jail and threw the nation into confusion over how he crossed the border, landed in Bulgaria two years in the past a 12 months beneath the nostril of the pinnacle of the Ministry of the Inside on the time, Boyko Rashkov. That is reported by “Epicenter”, referring to those that research the thriller.

By replaying the tape, the authorities found that Brendo had arrived in his dwelling nation on that small airplane, an previous Piper mannequin that was flying illegally over 4 NATO international locations and landed on 08.06.2022 at an inactive airport in European Bulgaria, throughout the federal government of Kiril Petkov.

The attacker then alerted the air forces and air protection programs of Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, however all exams of NATO fighters failed to ascertain contact with him.

At 7:09 p.m., the responsible two-seater airplane entered the territory of Bulgaria and at 9:30 p.m. it landed on an deserted runway on the airport within the village of Bukhovtsi, Targovishtko. A small video digital camera was engaged on its trunk, mentioned native residents, who had been in a position to get a detailed take a look at it the following day.

Earlier than touchdown in Bukhovtsi, the airplane made a brief touchdown on the runway of the previous civil airport close to the city of Vidin in Inovo. Based on unofficial info, he despatched gas from pipes there. The pilot managed to get away earlier than the police obtained to him.

“Essentially the most shocking factor is that the airplane flew over the jap aspect of NATO or so referred to as air police system. He examined each nation, this isn’t a random and detached flight – to fly from one place to a different and lose radio contact. This can be a well-planned flight,” consultants mentioned on the time.

The airplane was intercepted in Hungarian airspace by two JAS 39 Gripen army plane of the Hungarian Air Power.

It was later joined by two US Air Power F-16 fighters departing from Fetești Air Base in Romania, after which by two Romanian Air Power F-16s departing from one base.

Always the plane didn’t reply to radio inquiries and visible indicators.

The airplane entered the Serbian airspace for about two minutes at about 19:00 within the space between Drobeta Turnu Severin and Korbovo.

At roughly 7:09 p.m., it entered Bulgarian airspace.

Based on aviation security skilled Angel Borisov, probably the most embarrassing factor for Bulgaria is that our air drive didn’t reply: “Not solely do they defend the Black Sea, even earlier than it entered the Danube River from Serbia, they need to have been applied instantly, as a result of the airplane flew over on our Nuclear Energy Plant, which might even trigger a global scandal that we’re not defending the plant in any respect.”

The legal airplane was both carrying essential items or an essential individual, consultants mentioned. Threat of refueling stops, flying at evening, touchdown and taking off from non-operational airfields, no air site visitors management, no radar vary, no electrical system says the danger could be very excessive and the excessive pay.

The following day the inside minister mentioned Boyko Rashkov he defined how the airplane had crossed half of Europe – leaving Lithuania, passing by way of Poland, touchdown in Slovakia, persevering with by way of Hungary, then passing and landed safely in our nation. What was the explanation, what occurred, who these items and different issues – Rashkov couldn’t clarify, and the analysis he appointed couldn’t make clear.

Then it got here to gentle that the Lithuanian Bronius Zaronskis had offered the machine to Ukrainians every week earlier than the flight to Bulgaria.

Rashkov declined to touch upon the individuals who traveled on the airplane to look at “procedural management”.

“These individuals who got here to Bulgaria, nobody is aware of who they’re. They haven’t handed customs or passport management,” defined the previous head of border management.

The top of the MIA additionally mentioned that he had “wealthy” operational info, however couldn’t export information in order to not intrude with the investigation. There isn’t any official information as to why Bulgaria is on the finish of the flight.

Rashkov additionally advised how he obtained details about the legal airplane at evening, however as a result of the climate was dangerous, the machine was not tracked: “I obtained info late at evening that it entered the nation’s borders , touchdown was intermediate. within the Vidin space, once more for loading, after which the Air Power has entered the function.

You keep in mind, nonetheless, that the climate at the moment was reasonably unfavorable by way of visibility. Due to this fact, it’s harmful for such a airplane to be operated by the highly effective warplanes.”

The identical model was developed by the minister of the military on the time, Zakov:

“There’s a middle in NATO monitoring the airplane, it has been forwarded to the member international locations. The Bulgarian Air Power knew the place the airplane was even earlier than it went- into the nation’s borders. After getting into the nation, the airplane was searched always, aside from planes and air protection which are a part of the plane monitoring system”.

Zakov even identified that this airplane was not a risk throughout the complete flight, as its dimension didn’t counsel that it could trigger any harm to civilians or civil infrastructure.

In response to a query that the airplane was introduced in by fighter jets in different international locations by way of it, the minister defined that in different international locations it was the sunshine a part of the day, and in Bulgaria – the half darkish of the day with its storm in that a part of the nation.

Thus, Brendan’s airplane slipped previous NATO fighters and Bulgarian air defenses.

The shortage of coordination between the Ministry of Protection (MoD) and the Ministry of Inside is the explanation why the airplane was not saved in Vidin, the place it was loaded. Then it turned clear that Bulgaria has a significant issue with the radar vary, none decrease than 3,000 meters. That is why at first nobody knew the place the airplane landed.

The pre-trial proceedings had been instituted beneath Article 341b of the Legal Code – “who unlawfully intercepts an plane on the bottom or in flight, or a ship positioned within the maritime areas or in transit- inside water of the Republic of Bulgaria or within the open nation. as, or on a stationary platform that’s positioned on the continental shelf, or that establishes management over these property, is punished by imprisonment of as much as ten years”.

The case on the prosecutor’s workplace in Targovishte is concerning the unlawful seizure of a airplane.

At the moment it’s already clear that it was with this airplane that Evelin Banev-Brendo flew beneath the nostril of NATO and landed on the degree that was protected by the Ministry of the Inside close to Targovishte. And since then, nobody has been on the lookout for him.

The airplane was discovered the following day, however there was no signal of Brendo.

To seem on Monday, along with a TV crew, to knock on the door of Sofia’s jail and say: “Sure, I am Brendo!”.

Greater than 6 years Evelyn Banev is hiding from the authorities in Bulgaria, Italy and Romania. Throughout this time, the providers of varied international locations collected information that Brendan was nonetheless behind the cocaine commerce to Europe. He’s now surrendering after a number of main blows to the authorities.

First, on the finish of 2022, 578 kilograms of cocaine had been saved on the freeway in France in a truck with two Bulgarians. Final November, a Bulgarian truck driver was detained on a freeway close to Antwerp with 700 kilograms of cocaine, and a month later, the Irish authorities arrested the ship “Verila” with about half a ton of the one drug on board.