Two more high-profile Customs Agency (CA) officials will be replaced, Bulgarian National Radio said on July 1 2008.

Kiril Yordanov, customs chief in the town of Rousse on the Danube River border with Romania will be temporary replaced by Stefan Zlatanov, who is deputy-head of the Customs regional directorate in Rousse.

The other official to leave CA is Ivan Kozhouharov, deputy-head of the Kalotina checkpoint at the border with Serbia that serves as Bulgaria's main road link to central and western Europe and serves much of the traffic between Turkey and the European Union.

The changes come exactly a week after newly appointed Customs Agency head Hristo Koulishev presented his team to the media.

On June 24 2008, Koulishev said that there was a certain number of customs officials who gave the agency a bad name. Koulishev said he would get rid of employees who had not been acting in the best interest of the CA.

Koulishev accepted the promotion to head the CA on May 30 2008, a week and a half after his predecessor Assen Assenov filed his resignation. Assenov, who has been in charge of the CA for the past six years-and-a-half cited fatigue as the reason for his resignation.

His resignation was followed by resignations of several high-ranking CA officials. The first two were Assenov's deputies, Georgi Grigorov and Alexander Rakov, who resigned minutes after Assenov.

On June 6 Dimcho Kiryazov, the head of CA's regional directorate in Bourgas, filed his resignation together with Mihail Gochev, the head of Bourgas customs.