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The director of the Plovdiv customs has been detained

published on 4/30/25 3:28 PM

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The director of the Plovdiv customs, Miroslav Belyashki, has been detained. He was arrested for patronizing a new cigarette smuggling channel, linked to the so-called "cigarette king" Nikola Nikolov - Pascal, who has been on the run from justice in Serbia for months.

The arrested director of the Plovdiv customs was appointed to the post in mid-March 2024 by the then director of the Customs Agency, Petya Bankova, who was then arrested in an investigation into smuggling channels.

Sources from the Plovdiv customs commented that a few days ago, Belyashki personally tried to patronize the passage of a TIR truck with smuggled cigarettes, which was supposed to transit through Bulgaria, but was stopped at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing between Bulgaria and Turkey following a signal from foreign services.

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