Asen Petrov Lichev
Positions
Birth Date: 06.02.1952
Caretaker Minister of Environment and Water in the cabinet of Stefan Yanev from 12 May to 16 September 2021: Decree No. 129 of 10.05.2021 (State Gazette No. 39/2021, in Bulgarian); Decree No. 244 of 14.09.2021 (State Gazette No. 77/2021, in Bulgarian).
Caretaker Minister of Environment and Water in the cabinet of Stefan Yanev from 16 September to 13 December 2021: Decree No. 244 of 14.09.2021 (State Gazette No. 77/2021, in Bulgarian); Decision of the 47th National Assembly of 13.12.2021 (State Gazette No. 106/2021, in Bulgarian).
Public record
Compiled from publications and official records as of 23.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.
Corruption and scandals
- Hands documents on waste imports from Italy to the investigators. The caretaker environment and water minister told the temporary parliamentary committee investigating the previous five years of government that he had handed documents on waste imports from Italy to the investigating authorities. According to him, a director and a deputy minister at the ministry notified an import of waste that "can be treated in only two ways - burned or landfilled" (our translation). Actualno.com reports no outcome. — Actualno.com, 4 Aug 2021
- On Facebook: subordinates of the new deputy prime minister for ecology dumped the Vera Su cargo in the Black Sea. Asen Lichev writes on Facebook that subordinates of the new deputy prime minister for ecology dumped the cargo of Vera Su directly into the Black Sea and that he himself handed them to the prosecutor's office. The comment follows caretaker prime minister Galab Donev's allocation of portfolios among the deputy prime ministers; the deputy prime minister is not named in the article and no outcome is reported. — 24 Chasa, 9 Aug 2022
Sources: the President's decrees in the State Gazette; biography and photo: gov.bg (archived, in Bulgarian); birth date: comdos.bg (23.10.2026).
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