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Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, rejected the latest scandal as gossip, saying he has good relations with his colleagues, including the Finance Minister. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, literally repeated the words of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, when commenting on the latest scandal surrounding him and several other key Bulgarian persoanliites.
"We are not together in the cabinet to love each other," Tsvetanov told the private TV channel bTV late Wednesday evening.
Three tapes of conversations between Customs Agency Head Gen., Vanyo Tanov, and his superiors – Finance Minister, Simeon Dajnkov, and Deputy Finance Minister, Vladislav Goranov, – were released at a news conference Wednesday by the Galeria weekly, a paper believed to be the mouthpiece of Aleksei Petrov, (currently under house arrest) former special agent of the State National Security Agency DANS, who has been investigated on organized crime charges since his arrest in the much advertised "Operation Octopus" in February 2010.
Tsvetanov firmly denied his relations with Djankov are strained, saying such statements are gossip, should not be taken seriously and he had no idea where they came from.
"You see, the less we respond to similar improvisations, the better it is for the State and for us moving ahead," Tsvetanov declared, adding he did not know if the conversations were indeed held and he did not care anyway.
"This is so groundless that it is funny. I don't care who says what about me. I do care about the results, about the work of Bulgaria's cabinet," the Minister pointed out.
In a different interview, for the TV channel Nova Televizia, Tsvetanov, who is on vacation at the winter resort of Bansko, commented the latest scandal was part of the campaign ahead of this year's presidential and local elections, warning similar "scenarios" were still forthcoming.
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