PM Likens Bulgarian Organized Crime Groups to Al Qaeda Cells

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has stated that organized crime groups in Bulgaria operated like Al Qaeda cells – working independently but maintaining contact among each other.

“During all the kidnappings, the kidnappers would laugh impudently telling the victims, “Where is Boyko now, why isn’t he helping?” Well, I helped. But I know that in this way I am creating many powerful enemies,” Borisov told the bTV channel with respect to the busting of the “Impudent” kidnappers’ gang in December 2009.

He commented that the leader the Ataka party, Volen Siderov, might not have been aware of the activities and criminal record of the Yuriy Galev – an Ataka councilor in the town of Samokov who beat two security guards over the weekend. The Ataka party supports Borisov’s ruling party GERB.

The PM has made it clear that it was his decision as to whether and when to appoint new advisors or ministers. He has confirmed that INSEAD Professor Ilian Mihov was going to join his Cabinet, and it was only a matter of time for this to happen. Mihov said last week that his nomination to become Deputy PM was temporary frozen over political attacks against it.

“This is all a matter of psychology and reaction,” Borisov said commenting on the successful European Parliament hearing of Bulgaria’s new EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva which took place Wednesday. He declared he did not think that the initial nomination of ex Foreign Minister Rumiana Jeleva had been a mistake, and restate his arguments that the attacks on Jeleva created an unbearable atmosphere during her troubled EP hearing on January 12, 2010, which led her to fail.

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