The Bulgarian conservatives have accused the National State Security Agency (DANS) of dismissing qualified employees and hiring politicians' and magistrates' relatives as agents instead.

Todor Velikov and Emil Vasilev from the conservative party “Order, Law and Justice” (RZS) said Sunday that the agency is hiring relatives of politicians, attorneys and heads of the agency.

“Such appointments are immoral and illegal. There is a text from the agency's law which forbids relatives to be part of the agency's hierarchy,” the RZS MPs said.

According to the conservatives, the dismissals of DANS professionals, who were mostly employees of the former National Security Service (NSS), happened with the agency offering them to be redirected in a new structure of the agency, which was being closed shortly afterwards.

RZS ha stated that in this way, the former agents could not sue the DANS for wrongful dismissal.

“Our party has received information for thefts from the residency in Bankya, while it has been used for training by DANS in the last two years,” Velikov said.

He added that people, who have declined to give out their names, have alarmed RZS for the dismissals in a written form or by coming personally to the party's headquarters.

The conservatives have addressed their concerns to the Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who is in charge of DANS.

“Where was the parliamentary committee for control over DANS in the past year? Volen Siderov [who is currently the head of the committee] is involved in anything else but the control over the agency,” RZS said.

We need your support so Novinite.com can keep delivering news and information about Bulgaria! Thank you!