Bulgarian Ex-PM Interrogated over Wiretapping Scandal

Bulgaria's former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, pictureed during the ongoing election campaign. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is currengtly being interrogated by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation in relation with the ongoing wiretapping scandal in the country.

Borisov arrived for questioning at approximately 11:20 am EET Tuesday, according to local reporters.

The wiretapping scandal broke out at the end of March, when Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), submitted a tipoff to Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, about illegal wiretapping of politicians, businesspeople and magistrates which had taken place during the rule of Borisov’s center-right GERB party (2009-2013).

At the end of April, a secretly recorded conversation between former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, former Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, and already-former Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, leaked in Bulgarian media, stirring a massive scandal.

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.

Kokinov has been already questioned by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation.

Borisov and his Cabinet resigned amid massive protests against corruption and poverty in February, prompting President Rosen Plevneliev to adjourn the Parliament, appoint a caretaker Cabinet and schedule snap elections for May 12.

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