Bogomil Bonev

Bogomil Angelov Bonev (born September 18, 1957) is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997 and 1999.

Biography

Early years and police career Bogomil Bonev was born on September 18, 1957, in Radomir. He summoned a committee of experts from the FBI in the USA for their implementation. In his capacity of Minister of Interior, Bonev created the organization for and started the implementation of the new ID documents, which are even now assessed as the ones with the best defense in Europe. The most up-to-date information in the world on the defense of ID documents was used for their manufacture. In the meantime a competition was held, which was won by HP and Cappelen–Austria for the sum of 80 million leva. Yet, the Bulgarian state did not pay any money for this thanks to the terms of the competition. This is one of the rare cases in Europe when such a competition is held without arising any doubts of corruption.

In the end of 1999, after the European Committee adopted the resolution for the removal of the visa regime for Bulgaria, Ivan Kostov, Prime Minister at that time, decided to get rid of the Minister of Interior Bogomil Bonev because the latter had a considerably higher rating in society than the Prime Minister himself and his government. The intrigues, created by Atanas Atanasov, Director of the former State Security agency at that time, contributed to this. Atanas Atanasov is at present a key member of Ivan Kostov's new party. At the time when Ivan Kostov was Prime Minister, Atanasov wrote a report, which officially claimed to be directed against corruption within Ivan Kostov's government but was in fact concealing it. It was so because nothing was mentioned in this report about the corruptive privatization, carried out by Kostov himself, which did away with the official Bulgarian national airlines Balkan and gave strategic industries to Russian companies, some of which have been declared connected with the mafia.

Presidential elections in 2001 In 2001, Bonev ran for President in the presidential elections and received 19% (almost 600 000 votes) in spite of the false and unfounded accusations used by Petar Stoyanov, the President at that time, which cost Stoyanov the elections; he failed to manage to the run offs. This is something no representative of the opposition at present has achieved up to the moment.

Law career After that Bogomil Bonev worked as a lawyer. He has been consultant to world famous companies like Philip Morris in the fight against counterfeit production. In 2009 he was appointed Executive director of the International Plovdiv Fair company. Bogomil Bonev has been President of the Bulgarian Equestrian Federation for 10 years.

Family He is married to the popular Bulgaria actress, singer-songwriter and TV journalist Nona Yotova since 2006.