Budimir Kujovich, has been issued a Bulgarian passport despite being banned to enter the country.
"It is absolutely abnormal to issue a Bulgarian passport to a Serbian national, whom we claim to be a drug-trafficking boss," senior prosecutor Boris Velchev fumed on Wednesday in his first comment on the controversy.
"This way Bulgaria granted free access to Kujovich to the whole European Union," Velchev added.
Kujovich was issued a Bulgarian passport as part of a secret police operation, in which four tons of heroin were supposed to be seized in Bulgaria on their way towards Western Europe.
Interior Ministry Secretary General Ilia Iliev, who allowed issuing the passport, submitted his resignation at the end of November after months of waiting in vain for the heroin to cross the border.
Iliev then explained that he quits because he was tricked into signing a document, which breaches the regulations of the Interior Ministry.
A month later, Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border check point with Turkey seized 60 kilograms of heroin and police arrested Kujovic as the alleged boss of the traffickers.
After the arrest, Iliev finally revealed details about the operation and the tons of heroin, saying that the breaking of a channel for drug smuggling was after all successful.
After the scandal with the fake passport was unveiled, Interior Minister Rumen Petkov announced the case will be thoroughly checked and those officials who overstepped the law will be sanctioned.
Deputy director of the police in the town of Razgrad, Todor Dimov was dismissed for exceeding his rights in relation to the case. Claims that he was just a scapegoat in the scandal appeared in the media..
Kujovich was imposed a 10-year ban to enter Bulgaria in 2005 after being accused of running
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