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Former SANS Head Sertov Put on INTERPOL's Missing Persons List


Sofia, December 10 (BTA) - Petko Sertov, former director of the
State Agency for National Security (SANS), was put on
INTERPOL's missing persons list late on Tuesday.

Sertov has been on the national wanted list since noon on
Saturday after he went missing on Friday around 6 p.m.

Sertov was the first chairman of SANS after the agency was set
up and served at the post from January 1, 2008 to the summer of
2009. He then headed the Centre for Prevention and
Counteraction of Corruption and Organized Crime with the Council
of Ministers until March 2013.

On Wednesday, Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Svetlozar
Lazarov reported on the progress of the search at the Council of
Ministers. Emerging from the building, he told journalists
that the car in which Sertov left his home on Friday, a grey
Opel with license plate СА2987РМ, is also being searched for.
There currently are no data that the car had a GPS, Lazarov
said.

The police are considering a search by helicopter over Southern
Bulgaria, where Sertov's family said he used to go, Lazarov also
said.

When he left his home on Friday evening, Sertov did not take his
mobile phones and additional clothes with him, only his
personal documents, including his international passport. This
is why the police are checking all border control checkpoints,
but thus far there is no data indicating that Sertov has entered
a neighbouring country. The investigators are also checking
whether he has bought a flight ticket.