Rumen Slaveykov Serbezov

Public record

Compiled from publications and official records as of 31.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.

Communist Party and State Security

• Secret collaborator ХРИСТО of the First Directorate. The website agentibg.com, which publishes archive data, lists him as a secret collaborator of the First Chief Directorate of State Security with the pseudonym ХРИСТО, recruited on 20 January 1966 by Lieutenant Colonel Атанас Атанасов. He was then a diplomat at the Foreign Ministry preparing to leave as head of the press and cultural liaison office at the embassy in Tokyo. The First Directorate's 1970 assessment describes him: „Бързо се ориентира в обстановката, за което му помага владеенето на японски език и следенето на пресата.“ (our translation: He quickly finds his bearings, helped by his command of Japanese and his following of the press.) In June 1970 he was made a non-staff operative with a payment of up to 30 leva, and on 10 September 1971 a proposal to strike him off the register was approved. The document records that in this capacity he gave two reports and that no money was paid to him. — agentibg.com, 08.03.2015
• Not declared by the Бонев commission. The website agentibg.com notes that no materials survive in his file from the period after he was recruited again in 1979. Despite the agent reports in the dossier, the Бонев commission did not declare him in 1997; his affiliation was first announced by the Андреев commission on 21 May 2001, when it checked the members of parliament. — agentibg.com, 08.03.2015
• First secretary of the BKP district committee in Haskovo. Bulgarian Wikipedia writes: „След връщането си в България Румен Сербезов е първи секретар на Окръжния комитет на БКП в Хасково (1978 – 1980).“ (our translation: After returning to Bulgaria, Румен Сербезов was first secretary of the BKP District Committee in Haskovo, 1978–1980.) According to the same article he was ambassador to Japan from June 1974 to January 1979. — Bulgarian Wikipedia
• Minister, head of the Central Co-operative Union, ЦК secretary. In the 1980s he was minister of raw material resources, minister of light industry (1980–1985), minister of production and trade in consumer goods, secretary of the Economic Council of the Council of Ministers and chairman of the Central Co-operative Union, agentibg.com writes. The site also names him as a secretary of the BKP Central Committee and, in 1989–1990, as head of its economic department. — agentibg.com, 08.03.2015

Corruption and scandals

• Arrest and charge in 2000. In May 2000 he was arrested and charged with an offence in office, Vnews reports. According to agentibg.com the prosecution accused him of exceeding his powers to obtain a benefit in the sale of two properties of Токуда Кредит Експрес Банк against a debt to Агробизнесбанк, which cost the bank nearly 4 million leva. The bank's two directors were acquitted in 2006 and the charges against him were dropped. — Vnews, 24.07.2011, agentibg.com, 08.03.2015
• Индустриал М and two embezzlement cases. The website agentibg.com writes that he entered business as head of Индустриал М of Мултигруп. According to the 1998 List of Credit Millionaires, the firm was the group's second-largest debtor, owing more than 1.1 billion leva to Балканбанк. He was charged as a defendant in two embezzlement cases, but they ended without a conviction. — agentibg.com, 08.03.2015
• Joint firm with Галина Лукановска. Vnews recalls that until the end of the 1990s he had a joint firm ГР with Галина Лукановска, the wife of Иво Карамански. — Vnews, 24.07.2011