site.btaPolice Identify Perpetrators of Several High-profile Killings

Interior Ministry, Prosecution Authority Found Perpetrators of High-profile Killings


Sofia, January 25 (BTA) - The Interior Ministry and the
prosecution authority found the perpetrators of high-profile
murders. A group of nine people is responsible for the killing
of a hotel and night club owner on March 24, 2014 and another
one - of a construction entrepreneur and his wife - on January
8, 2015. This transpired at a news conference granted here on
Sunday by Deputy Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov and
Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Svetoslav Lazarov.

The group, operating on the territory of Varna, was headed by
Radoslav Kalchev. He went abroad on January 11 and has been
wanted by the police ever since. Seven members of the group have
been arrested. The ninth one, Nedyalko Tsvetkov, is still at
large.

Police has established that 30,000 euro were paid for the
January 8 murder of construction . Nearly the same amount was
paid for last year's killing.

Sarafov said that everyone in Varna were terrified by the group
and witnesses began talking only after their arrest.

The group was involved in drug distribution, controlled the
prostitution market and had a strong-arm team that would cur
ears and fingers and break arms and legs.

The Varna group was both professionally and personally linked to
the busted group of Mila Georgieva in Sofia. The Sofia group
was detained in a police operation in Sofia on January 14. They
are suspected of committing several murders and three attempted
killings.

A large part of the members of the Varna group served sentences
in prison but even there they continued their activity.

It has also been established that Orhan Yuzirov, killed near
Petrich, was gunned down because he would put tea in the heroin,
which he would traffic to Greece. His killers are Radoslav
Valeov and Georgi Georgiev. They made confessions and took the
police to the place, where they had buried the weapon of the
crime.

Lazarov said that the prosecution authority and the Interior
Ministry had a joint meeting earlier on Sunday, attended by
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. Apart of the murders, the
participants discussed other crimes, such as VAT syphoning and
excise duty offences and mapped out measures against the
migration pressure.