Iskra Fidosova, a key MP from Bulgaria's ruling party GERB, has issued an angry statement filled with rich epithets and figures of speech denouncing Yane Yanev, leader of a marginal political party, making "discrediting" claims against her.

Her strong words came in reaction to a document revealed by Yanev that implicates her in an alleged corruption scandal.

At a press conference Friday, Yane Yanev, the leader of RZS (which stands for "Order, Law, Justice"), showed to the press a payment invoice, which states on December 15, 2007, Fidosova received BGN 150 000 under a property rent contract from Titas AS, one of the companies that handles Sofia's garbage disposal. Titan AS has a contract of Sofia's street cleaning and garbage disposal since March 2009, and according to RZS, the invoice shows the GERB party has been involved in questionable fund raising activities.

"I understand that Yane Yanev has presented a photocopy of a payment invoice by some company with my name on it. It is true that today is Friday, and on Friday we can expect anything from Yane because on this day he is most productive with respect to lies, manipulations, tape editing, assemblages. I think we should congratulate ourselves with the emergence of the Bulgaria David Copperfield – Yane. This is the man who can do all kinds of magic, cheap tricks, manipulations. After I was accused of all kinds of demoniac actions, including that I raped one of the MPs from Yanev's party, I expect to be declared next Friday a cannibal, a witch, or something worse," says Fidosova, who is the Co-Chair of the Parliamentary Group of Bulgaria's ruling party GERB.

"I declare that I am not going to get into an explanation mode regarding people who falsify personal information in petitions and use the IDs of deceased or immigrants. I am not going to deal with discrediting agents and puppets. There are proper institutions in Bulgaria that will say if I ever violated any laws," she states referring to the petition for a referendum for a new constitution. An investigation by the State National Security Agency DANS found that the petition contained the signature, who claim to have never signed, and of people who are deceased or have emigrated.

Fidosova also describes Yanev as a "political Frankenstein, who spreads badly forged documents tossed in his hands by the puppet masters of organized crime and State Security", (or DS – i.e. the secret service of the former communist regime."

Earlier on Friday, The RZS party demanded that GERB leader and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov answer their questions about the BGN 150 000 transaction that Fidosova got, and that the Prosecutor's Office and the State National Security Agency DANS should investigate what Yanev called "an evident act of money laundering and illegal funding of a political party."

Iskra Fidosova, who was a notary public in the northwestern city of Montana before she became one of GERB's key MPs after the 2009 elections, has refused to comment on the RZS information.

This is the second time in two weeks that Fidosova has come under fire from the RZS party after last week she figured in "Tapegate", the scandal with leaked tapes of telephone conversations of senior Bulgarian officials, which were leaked by the Galeria weekly, a paper believed to be the mouthpiece of arrested former secret agent Aleksei Petrov, and by the RZS party.

The tape of a conversation between Fidosova and Customs Agency head Vanyo Tanov alleged reveals that she was trying to pressure him to appoint a certain person as the head of the customs office in the Danube port of Lom.

The authenticity of the tapes is disputed, and according to forensic experts of the Prosecutor's Office there is evidence that they may have been manipulated.

The RZS party, which itself is rumored to be close to Aleksei Petrov, a former secret agent and commando, arrested in police operation Octopus in February 2010, has been increasingly vocal in attacking the ruling party GERB, allegedly seeking to reveal violations by its key figures.

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