He has been promoted many times in position and rank for the successful solution of a number of cases involving murder and vault breaking.
After the end of the fall of Philip Dimitrov's government, Bogomil Bonev resigned from the position of Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior on his own request.
He started his legal practice and worked as a counselor of the parliamentary group of the Union of the Democratic Forces on national security issues.
After a very successful fight against organized crime Bogomil Bonev was appointed in the same position in the cabinet of Ivan Kostov, which was the second government of the democratic forces in R. Bulgaria.
Thanks to Bogomil Bonev all the 56 criteria of the "Budapest process" were then met and this made it possible for Bulgaria to be taken out of the negative Schengen visa list in accordance with the unanimous decision of the Ministers of Interior of the member states of the European Community.
In his capacity of Minister of Interior, Bonev created the organization for and started the implementation of the new ID documents, which are even now assessed as the ones with the best defense in Europe.
It was so because nothing was mentioned in this report about the corruptive privatization, carried out by Kostov himself, which did away with the official Bulgarian national airlines Balkan and gave strategic industries to Russian companies, some of which have been declared connected with the mafia.