The Director of Bulgaria's National Investigation Service Boyko Naydenov announced Tuesday that the murder of the dissident writer Georgi Markov, who was assassinated on the Waterloo Bridge in London in 1978, would be investigated by a completely new team.
"My idea is to attract younger people unencumbered by the past and unrelated to the past. This would bring some fresh blood into the investigation," Naydenov said admitting the present investigator Andrey Tzvetanov had not done a good job.
The announcement about the new investigating team comes a day after Markov's widow, brother, and cousin sent an open letter to the Bulgarian institutions and media insisting that Tzvetanov be dismissed, that all new evidence be taken into consideration, and that a new investigator be appointed.