The Director of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, Vanyo Tanov, will file a claim with the prosecutor's office over the probe against his son.

Tanov made the announcement late Wednesday after the conclusion of his hearing with the Parliamentary Subcommittee for Internal Order and Public Safety where he appeared to answer questions about the scandal involving taped phone conversations between Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, the Customs Head himself, and other key political figures.

Tanov stated Wednesday the services had a plan to discredit his son, including using false evidence. The Customs Head reminded he received a while ago documents showing his son had a police psychological profile. The documents also included information of where he parks his car, what type of keys and key locks are used for access to his apartment building – all proof the young man has been followed.

Tanov said he had already approached Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev, but will undertake legal action when the entire affair with the tapes and the special surveillance devices is over.

The Customs Chief further explained that two days after he received the said documents, a neighbor of his son was supposed to alert the police the young man had been keeping contraband cigarettes in his apartment. According to an earlier version, the cigarettes were supposed to be placed in his car.

Tanov pointed out he did not believe the probe had been done by private investigators, saying the psychological profile requires 5-6 months to be prepared and this one has been done by the police.

The Customs Director stated many people and businesses were "interested" in him and this is why they tried to discredit his son by revealing forged ties with the contraband channels in Bulgaria.

When asked if there will be tapes from conversation between Interior Minister' Tsvetan Tsvetanov, and himself, Tanov said: "No, because we never talk to each other."

The Bulgarian weekly Galeria published on Wednesday the new, third series of discrediting recordings.

According to one of the tapes, Borisov instructs Tanov, to make sure that Nikolay Vuchev, with whom he often plays football, is reassigned to his job at Terminal 2 at Sofia airport.

Bulgaria's so-called "spy" scandal was initially triggered by three tapes of discrediting conversations between Tanov, and his superiors – Finance Minister Simeon Djankov and Deputy Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov.

The tapes were released earlier this month at a news conference, again held 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 since his detention in the much advertised "Operation Octopus" in February 2010.

On January 14, Galeria released a tape of a conversation between the Prime Minister and the Customs Director, alleging Borisov provided a cover-up for the owner of the "Ledenika" beer company, Mihail Mihov.

The tapes reveal that the PM had called Tanov with an order to immediately pull the tax agents out of the factory and that the "Ledenika" boss personally complained to the PM.

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