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Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov. Photo by BGNES
The Bulgarian Parliament has refused to schedule a hearing of the country's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Tsvetan Tsvetanov concerning the recent leak of high officials' tapped phone coversations.
The hearing was demanded by the marginal conservative RZS party because of "the illegal spying and tapping of Bulgarian citizens" and, in the case of Tsvetanov, the supposed leaking of information from the Interior Ministry and the National Security Agency.
Last week, three tapes of discrediting conversations between the Director of the Customs Agnecy, Vanyo Tanov, and his superiors – Simeon Dajnkov and Deputy Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov were released at a news conference by the Galeria weekly, a paper believed to be the mouthpiece of Aleksei Petrov, former special agent of the State National Security Agency DANS, (currently under house arrest), who has been investigated on organized crime charges. Petrov is alleged to have ties with RZS.
In the tapes, Tanov states that Tsvetanov has Tsvetanov has wanted to appoint "his own people" at the Customs Agency.
On Monday, RZS party announced they will release new tape recordings in which two MPs, from the ruling centrist GERB party, Menda Stoyanova and Iskra Fidosova, can be allegedly heart lobbying with Tanov to hire their candidates at key Customs positions.
The hearing proposal was accepted by all parliamentary groups except GERB and thei closest allies from the far rightist party Ataka (Atack).
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