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The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office will investigate whether the tapes of discrediting conversations were a result of using special surveillance devices. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency
The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office has started pre-trial proceedings regarding the tapes of discrediting conversations between key Bulgarian political personalities.
Three tapes of conversations between the Director of the Customs Agency, Gen. Vanyo Tanov and his superiors – Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, 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.
The Chief Prosecutor, Steliana Kozhuharova, announced Thursday that the investigation will focus on where the tapes have come from instead of the information they contain.
"The tapes arrived at the Prosecutor's Office today, but the pre-trial proceedings were started yesterday. The investigation has been assigned to the National Investigative Service. It will be established whether the tapes were a result of special surveillance devices or of private records," Kozhuharova said.
She pointed out that the tapes did not leak from the Prosecutor's Office because there have not been such tapes there until now.
The Chief Prosecutor also noted that the pre-trial proceedings were not started against the Galeria weekly, but against an unknown perpetrator.
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