Gleb Mishin submitted documents to the Executive Agency for Bulgarians Abroad (IABCH) on May 10, 2022, and they were processed on the same day with an opinion to approve Bulgarian origin. This was said by the executive director of the IABCH, Raina Mandjukova, at the meeting of the temporary parliamentary commission for the verification of facts and circumstances about the activities of Gleb Mishin, related to data on the possible illegal granting of Bulgarian citizenship.
She indicated that this was the period in which Todor Vanchev was the executive director of the agency, who, according to her, had not signed documents until July 15, 2022, when Mandjukova was appointed in his place. She explained that the employees of the agency accepted applications, the experts examined the documents. The document was already processed on May 10, 2022, with an opinion to approve the Bulgarian origin, Mandzukova added. On July 15, I inherited a certain number of folders and signed everything, which at that time had a positive opinion, she stated.
As Mediapool wrote, citing its sources in the investigation, “obviously” forged documents were used in more than 4,000 files for granting Bulgarian citizenship to foreigners from countries in the former Soviet Union, he learned. This “factory” for the production of Bulgarian citizens functioned without hindrance for years, although the services knew about it.
“This is a potential channel for the infiltration of people from Russia’s intelligence services in Europe,” commented in February the co-chairman of “We continue the change – Democratic Bulgaria” Atanas Atanasov, who was the first to raise the alarm about the case.
“There is some mythical person here who deals with this. His name is Gleb Mishin, who is Ukrainian by birth, but he is probably Russian. He provides a whole cavalcade of people of Russian origin who receive Bulgarian citizenship,” explained Atanasov.
The first report to the prosecutor’s office about the Ukrainian in question of Russian origin, Gleb Mishin, was filed at the beginning of August last year, but the case remains pending. According to Mediapool, the scheme for acquiring a Bulgarian passport, linked so far only to the enlightened Gleb Mishin, began to function in 2018.
According to Mandjukova before the commission, the only person who saw Gleb Mishin was the person who accepted the application at the counter on May 10, 2022, and then on August 10, 2022, after he was already of established Bulgarian origin, he was came to the counter again and received the document.
Regarding the file, it can be seen that it proves the Bulgarian origin on the basis of father Anatoly Mihailov, who was born in 1937 in the village of Kalchevo, Bolgradsky district, Ukraine, Mandjukova pointed out. She stated that she called the village to ask if such persons existed and received a positive response.
Anatoly Mihailov’s birth certificate states that his father Ivan Mihailov is Bulgarian. The next document is about the relationship between Anatoly Mihaylov and Gleb Mishin – the marriage certificate, which states that after the marriage, the spouses take the surname Mishin, Mandjukova pointed out and added that the documents are based on old Soviet models. The first document is the birth certificate of Gleb Mishin. These are the three documents that gave us the basis to establish his Bulgarian origin, Mandjukova added.
She pointed out that documents come to the Agency when the family relationship is distant.
The Agency for Bulgarians Abroad currently certifies Bulgarian origin only and only for the acquisition of long-term and permanent residence on the basis of the Law on Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria, said Raina Mandjukova. The Law on Bulgarian Citizenship says up to the third generation, she added.
If the person has a document in which one of his parents is Bulgarian, then the Migration Directorate does not require a certificate. She explained that if the person who is Bulgarian is a grandmother or grandfather, then the Migration Directorate issues a letter to the Agency. The person comes to us, submits a file, we require a declaration for a survey in which we collect the necessary data about the ascending Bulgarians, a notarized declaration of Bulgarian self-awareness and the relevant documents that prove the connection with the ascending Bulgarians, explained Majhukova.
She stated that the original documents remain with the Agency until the certification, refusal or termination procedure is completed.
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