Zhelyaz Andreev: The Most Important Thing is that I'm Staying Here. We Have No Information About the US Case So Far

"We have no information on the status of the US case. For us, the most important thing was that I аm stay here. "

This was said by Zhelyaz Andreev, this morning on bTV, after it became clear yesterday that the United States withdrew the request for extradition of the Bulgarian.

''If I go to America, the risk of being arrested is big and real, but the US is not the destination I want to visit'', he pointed out.

 Novinite.com recalls that Twenty-nine-year-old Zhelyaz Andreev was detained in April, 2018 by the police in his hometown of Dobrich at the request of the Miami Prosecutor's Office.

Andreev's arrest is in connection with an investigation by the authorities in Florida against 11 people on charges of violating the embargo on trade with Syria. Five of them - Zhelyaz Andreev, Mihaela Nenova, Lyubka Hristova, Iskren Georgiev and Ivan Sergiev are Bulgarians.

All Bulgarians have worked at a call center in Sofia, where they sold parts for Syrian aircraft airplanes that the US authorities claim to be related to terrorist activity. The case became known in March 2017 when the Miami Prosecutor's Office detained the Ali and Arash Kabi brothers and their sister Marjan.

According to the investigation, Arash Kabi, who has two passports, Iranian and French, has ruled AW Tronics, a Miami-registered company for electronics, aviation and oil production.

At the end of 2010, they founded "Arrotronix" in Sofia, which was later renamed to AB Tronix, which the investigators call a "Sofia office" of a Florida company.

In the spring of 2013, the US authorities blocked Syrian Air's assets and banned trading. According to the US, with the help of the...