{"id":44789,"date":"2019-01-18T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=44789"},"modified":"2019-01-19T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:54:10","slug":"interior-ministry-is-probing-special-task-force-officer-tanker-badr-attempted-to-flee-towards-odessa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/interior-ministry-is-probing-special-task-force-officer-tanker-badr-attempted-to-flee-towards-odessa.html","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry Is Probing Special Task Force Officer, Tanker BADR Attempted to Flee Towards Odessa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alexander Longochev, identified<\/a>\nby the Libyan Captain of the tanker BADR as one of the guards of Bashev\nTeam & Security<\/a>, who hijacked the vessel on December 21, 2018, is an\nactive employee of the Ministry of Interior since 2003. The Ministry is probing\nevidence made public by Bivol that he had been involved in the action against\nthe ship qualified by the Libyan state as “piracy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the company “Bashev Team & Security”\ndoes not have a license for security activities, the Ministry of Interior says.\nNo gun permits have been issued to its employees, the Ministry\u2019s press office\nasserts in response to questions by Bivol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the same time, the testimony of the Libyan Captain and\ncrew is that armed men dressed in uniforms of that same security company have\nboarded the ship, threatened and abused the crew and the Captain and forced\nthem to leave the vessel. They have acted together with border police officers\nand an employee of Maritime Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the lack of a license, the guards of “Bashev Team\n& Security” openly brag on Facebook about their vehicles plastered\nwith stickers with the logo of their illegal company, as well as about the guns\nfor which they lack permits, such as the Glock gun, which one of the guards is photographed\nbrandishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBashev Team & Security\u201d is associated with the thugs of Ivaylo \u201cThe Torino\u201d Borisov<\/strong>, who rose to fame two years ago for beating innocent citizens on the Sofia beltway. It has been known since then that this gang had no licenses for a security firm. Rumen Bashev<\/strong>, for example, has been hired as a fitness instructor and nutrition counselor in one of Ivaylo Borisov\u2019s companies, another of these men has worked as a driver, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Interior Ministry says they have no data on other active\npolice officers being part of the security guards employed by the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the rules of the Panamanian Maritime\nAdministration, the embarking of private guards on a ship under a Panamanian\nmust be agreed with the owner and the security company must be entered in a\nspecial register. This, of course, had not been done, and the gang the readers\nsee on the pictures had hijacked the ship in a purely pirate attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Action in open sea:\nThe tanker fled to Odessa, a border police cutter caught it and forced it to return<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As shown by satellite data, published by the site Maritime.bg<\/a><\/em>,\non January 14, the tanker BADR weighed anchor and sailed in the direction of\nOdessa. After four hours of sailing northeast, it made a U-turn and on the\nmorning of January 15 was already anchored in the Burgas harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the joint press conference given by Maritime\nAdministration Director Zhivko Petrov and the Director of the Border Police in the\nBlack Sea city of Burgas, this fact was hushed. In a conversation with Bivol,\nhowever, Zhivko Petrov admitted that the Captain of the tanker had not obeyed his order<\/strong> to return to\nthe Bulgarian harbor and had attempted to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident had played like in an action movie. The tanker\nhad turned off his beacon and radar system, but the border police cutter had managed\nto catch up with it and bring it back. According to Zhivko Petrov, the Libyan Captain\nhad claimed that he had received an order to flee to Odessa by the alleged owner\n– Bulgargeomin DZZD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BADR\/BDIN, however, had been lacking for months already the\nnecessary certificates to sail anywhere, and apart from that Panama has suspended<\/a>\nits temporary registration and is in the process of withdrawing its flag due to\nthe fact that Bulgargeomin DZZD had presented fake certificates to obtain the\ntemporary registration. This makes the ship entirely illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n