A second man has been detained over the killing of businessman Iliyan Filipov. He is Atanas Dechev, 42, from Pazardzhik. He is held as an accomplice of Slavcho Megerov, known as Megera, whom investigators name as the killer.

The supervising prosecutor ordered Dechev held for up to 72 hours yesterday. Investigators also took his wife in for questioning but later let her go.

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Dechev is known to police for a string of crimes. He has been convicted of serious intentional crimes and is linked to the "Monopola" group, one of the old criminal groups in Pazardzhik. It is not yet clear how he is connected to Megerov.

The district prosecutor's office in Plovdiv will ask the court to keep Dechev in custody.