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Ex-director of National Customs Agency Petya Bankova remains permanently in custody

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The Sofia Court of Appeal has permanently remanded the former head  of the National Customs Agency Petya Bankova and businessman Stefan Dimitrov in custody. The decision is not subject to appeal.

According to the reasons of the judges, there is a well-founded assumption that the two are part of an organized criminal group, to which the former chief secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Zhivko Kotsev, was joined yesterday.

Petya Bankova has also been charged with coercion, her lawyer Adelina Natina announced.

On April 4 of this year Petya Bankova was detained for 72 hours and accused of participating in an organized crime group with trading in influence, smuggling, bribery with three other people, including Stefan Dimitrov.

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