Iliya Milushev, the President's security adviser, has been
arrested in connection with pre-trial proceedings involving disclosure of
state secrets, Prosecutor’s office said on July 9.
He was initially questioned as a witness, but after a
computer-technical examination of a phone seized from him, it was established
that the device contained information concerning the State Agency for Technical
Operations.
Milushev voluntarily handed over four documents, which were
illegally taken out of the State Intelligence Agency, which contain information
that is a state secret.
The presidential adviser explained that he had found the
documents in the safety vault in his office of the Presidency building, and
this was what necessitated the morning investigation and in the building of the
presidential administration.
The actions of the investigation are carried out in pre-trial
proceedings, which have been instituted for a crime under Art. 357 of the Penal
Code - disclosure of a state secret, added the Prosecutor's office.
Besides Milushev, by order of the Ministry of Interior, M.K., a
former employee of the State Intelligence Agency.was detained for 24 hours.
The supervising prosecutors are yet to assess whether charges
will be pressed and measures taken to keep the two detainees in custody.
There are also two other persons in the pre-trial proceedings (P.V. and A.Z.), who are under house arrest.
Earlier today, another adviser of President Rumen Radev, the secretary on legal issues and anti-corruption, Plamen Uzunov was also arrested.
He is investigated for alleged trading in influence.
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