Ex Bulgarian PM to be Grilled over ‘Watergate’ Scandal - Report

Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been dealt a heavy blow by the leaked recordings. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will be interrogated over the latest batch of recordings in the so-called 'watergate' scandal, according to media reports.

The Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation has launched proceedings aimed at establishing the authenticity of the wiretaps and whether there is sufficient information pointing to a crime against justice and malfeasance in office.

According to the media statement of the prosecuting authority, the wiretapped conversations are not the result of authorized use of special surveillance devices.

Boyko Borisov former Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, and Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov will be summoned for interrogation as part of the prosecutors' probe, Presa daily reported, citing insiders.

The three will be asked to deny or confirm whether they have held the scandalous conversation, which leaked to the media on Friday.

Bulgarian media published Friday morning a scandalous special surveillance devices recording including a conversation between him, former Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, and Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov.

It is filled with profanities, curses, vulgarities, and insults of prosecutors, politicians, and journalists, including ridicule of some of them over appearing to be homosexual.

The most insults are directed at Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, with Kokinov blaming Borisov of handpicking him as it turned out he was not acting as expected.

The talk in the scandalous recording basically revolves around corruption charges pressed against Naydenov and Kokinov being in hot water over breaches he had committed, and ways for both to get out of them.

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