FC Litex President Angel Bonchev was kidnapped on May 22 and released fifty days later when his wife Kameliya was also abducted while trying to pay the ransom. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
The investigation over the abduction of the Litex Football Club President Angel Bonchev and his wife Kameliya must continue despite their release, MPs from the Internal Security and Public Order Parliamentary Committee declared.
According to the chair of the committee, Mincho Spasov, the actions of the kidnappers were puzzling and investigation must find out what exactly happened. Spasov also added that the kidnappers must be nabbed by the police.
On Wednesday, Kameliya Boncheva was released after spending 20 days in captivity. Before that Angel Bonchev himself was kidnapped on May 22 and released fifty days later.
Boncheva was declared missing on July 11 after she disappeared when attempting to give her husband's abductors the first BGN 500 000 of the total of BGN 3 M that they have demanded as ransom.
The woman was then accompanied by undercover police officers, who botched the operation and failed to protect her.
On Tuesday, Angel Bonchev gave an interview for the Bulgarian bTV channel, saying he did not have any information about his wife and is donating the sum of EUR 157,000 to the Tomorrow for Everyone foundation, which fights against breast cancer.
Bonchev said the money is what his friends had collected for him to pay as a ransom for the freedom of his wife.
The chairwoman of the foundation, Rumyana Kozareva, denied speculations that the money is to be given to the kidnappers, saying that Bonchev's move was very surprising to them. Kozareva said the money is to be used for the building of a centre for rehabilitation of people operated for breast cancer.