MP: Bulgaria FBI Was Alerted over Corruption of Ex-PM Stanishev

Bulgaria's conservative leader Yanev claims former PM Stanishev was investigated for corruption by DANS. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria’s Conservative MP, Yane Yanev, said Thursday he had information that the State National Security Agency DANS had received corruption alerts against former Prime Minister, Sergey Stanishev.

Yanev, who is the leader of the “Law, Order, Justice” (RZS) party and the Chair of the Parliamentary Anti-Corruption Committee, told the bTV channel he demanded information on whether Bulgaria’s FBI really received signals that Stanishev was involved in corruption schemes, and whether those signals had been covered up.

This information is supposed to come from the Parliamentary Committee for Control of DANS, which should also say whether other former top officials such as Petar Mutafchiev, Nikolay Vasilev, Emel Etem, or Emiliya Maslarova have been investigated for corruption.

Yanev did say that there had definitely been investigations of high-level corruption in DANS, and that this information had to be made public as soon as possible, or else the people would think that it would be covered up.

Yanev said he would ask for a meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov over the statute of the Anti-Corruption Committee that he chairs in order to demand more powers for it such as the right to make surprise inspections.

Bulgaria’s ruling party GERB has 116 MPs, 5 short of a majority. The RZS party of Yanev has 10 MPs, and has declared support for the GERB government together with two other smaller right-wing formations, Ataka and the Blue Coalition.

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