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A fellow party member claims Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, has long-running ties with the mafia. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, is the "Octopus" head and Aleksei Petrov's patron, Plamen Nikolov, parliamentary secretary of the socialist cabinet "Videnov" insists.
Nikolov claimed Wednesday that even before the summer 2009 general elections people within the President's institution mulled in a panic different scenarios for failing the future cabinet of the central-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party.
The former parliamentary secretary further maintains the now-deceased, Iliya Bozhinov, was pressured to assign the rights of his "Taxi C Express" business to Petrov under the secret orders of Parvanov. The President has been promised that in exchange for the favor, the "Octopus" would turn the cab company into a surveillance team serving the interests of the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
Iliya Bozhinov, founder and Chair of Bulgaria's alternative left-wing party "Bulgarian Left Wing," died suddenly in August 2010, while vacationing in a camping site in the Black Sea coast. The cause of death was listed as "serious stomach ailment."
The close ties between Petrov and Parvanov date from the end of the 90s of the last century, Nikolov says, adding one proof is the inclusion of the former undercover agent of the State Agency for National Security (DANS), Aleksei Petrov, in a BSP high-level delegation in China.
In April, 2010, the former Member of the Parliament from the right-wing Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party, Gen. Atanas Atanasov, stated the President was the one issuing an order to stop the pending dismissal of Petrov from the National Security Services where the latter was employed in 2003.
Aleksei Petrov aka the Tractor was arrested in February during a special police operation, codenamed "Octopus" on a number of criminal charges. Considered one of the top underworld figures after the fall of Communism, Petrov was recently released under house arrest.
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