Stanishev: Bulgarian Ex-PM Should Be Charged with Impeding Justice

Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov should face charges for attempting to impede justice, according to Sergey Stanishev, leader of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Stanishev stated that Borisov should explain why he summoned Sofia’s former chief prosecutor to discuss details of a bribery probe against former Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov.

Stanishev referred to a scandalous secretly recorded conversation between Borisov, Naydenov and prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov, which leaked at the end of April.

Borisov was interrogated in relation with the wiretapped conversation earlier on Tuesday.

Bulgaria’s latest wiretapping scandal broke out at the end of March, when Stanishev 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 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 leaked 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.

Snap elections are to take place in Bulgaria this Sunday, with GERB having a slight edge over the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, according to pollsters.