“Don Corleone” passed through the checkpoint in Bulgaria: Pascal left for Dubai, is now untouchable – Security in the news

Andthey crushed “Don Corleoneto” at the border crossing in Bulgaria. Nikola Nikolov – Pascal blew for Dubai, is now untouchable. Insiders from the underground reveal that the smuggling boss managed to leave Greece and go to Dubai already a week ago, ahead of the issuance of the international warrant for his arrest. According to them, the 63-year-old smuggler has already settled in the Emirate, where his arrest and subsequent extradition to our country is almost impossible.

At the beginning of the week, Sofia city prosecutor Iliyana Kirilova announced that Pascal is now an internationally wanted person at the request of the local authorities, but did not explain why the European arrest warrant was issued for him.

According to official data of the Ministry of the Interior, Nikola Nikolov – Pascal left Bulgaria through the “Kulata” checkpoint on March 29 with his luxury camper.

as the 63-year-old smuggler was accompanied by other members of his family. Pascal owns a hotel and a house in the Greek city of Kavala, and people familiar with his business claim that he is the unofficial owner of countless more properties in Greece, acquired over the past decade through a dozen frontmen from Haskovo, Petrich and Dimitrovgrad.

A high-ranking customs officer familiar with Pascal’s schemes confirmed the information that Nikolov is no longer in the territory of neighboring Greece: “As far as I know, just a week ago Pascal flew to Dubai on a flight from Athens.”

However, according to a person from the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Nikola Nikolov-Paskal is placed under constant surveillance by the Greek police at the request of the Bulgarian authorities and should be detained if he tries to leave the borders of Greece. The fact is, however, that until a few days ago, there was no European arrest warrant issued for Pascal, and he could easily leave our southern neighbor.

Nikola Nikolov – Pascal, a central figure in the customs scandal

and data on cigarette smuggling, protected by already released from office and obtained charges from the prosecutor’s office, the head of the Customs Agency, Petya Bankova, and the chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhivko Kotsev, disappeared from the country at the beginning of April, when an operation was carried out “on urgency” of the National Tax Service and the Anti-Corruption Commission.

Days after the arrests of Bankova, of father and son Marin and Stefan Dimitrovi, and after the leaked scandalous photos of Jivko Kotsev, naked in a sauna and wearing a 50-bonus watch, it turned out that the authorities had been following the smuggler for months. Pascal’s channel, but despite the ongoing development, they did not find it necessary to detain the boss of the organized crime group. A strong rumor even claims that Pascal was detained in a DANS action on April 3 in one of his houses in the private residential complex “Gentle Park” in Sofia, but was subsequently allowed to secretly leave Bulgaria until “the storm subsided”.

After the scandal broke out with Pascal and his smuggling network, protected by senior customs officials and cops, it became known that Nikola Nikolov was recruited by State Security even in the barracks.

and immediately after that he was assigned to the “Captain Andreevo” border post. There he worked on the captagon channel in the mid-1980s. After that, he was transferred undercover as a truck driver and thus mastered the entire channel from Bulgaria through Turkey to the Middle East.

According to the former head of Svilengrad Customs, Georgi Shishkov, Pascal started his smuggling activities at the dawn of democracy and has now reached the highest level.

“With the help of Greek communists who fled their homeland from the right-wing dictatorship of 1967-1974, Pascal started his smuggling business in the early 1990s. His first company was a joint venture with an elderly Greek citizen in Orestiada. A relative of the Greek citizen in Thessaloniki opened a representative office in the “Thessalonica” duty-free zone, and the shipment of cigarettes from Cyprus, through the “Thessalonica” duty-free zone, and from there to Bulgaria began,” describes Pascal’s protégé in the smuggling business, former customs chief Georgi Shishkov.

Source: Weekend, crimesbg.com

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