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The Deputy Chairman of the formerly-ruling center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, and former Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, photo by BGNES
The Deputy Chairman of the formerly-ruling center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, and former Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, will give up his immunity after June 4.
The information has been revealed Friday by GERB leader and former Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, who said Tsvetanov will be voluntarily stripped of immunity as Member of the Parliament after that date as until then he will be on a planned and scheduled earlier trip to Brussels.
On Thursday, Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov formally requested that Tsvetanov be stripped of his immunity as lawmaker.
Tsvetanov faces charges of failing to exercise proper control over the use of special surveillance devices during his term in office.
The former Interior Minister may face up to 8 years in jail if proven guilty.
The "Bulgarian Watergate" scandal unfurled at the end of March when Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), submitted a tipoff to Tsatsarov about alleged unauthorized wiretapping of politicians, businesspeople and magistrates which had taken place during GERB's rule.
Tsvetanov has reiterated on several occasions he was ready to give up his immunity.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports emerged that the former Interior Minister has hired a high-profile German lawyer to defend him.
Tsvetanov has refused to reveal the lawyer's name to the local Standart daily. The paper has described the former Interior Minister's attorney as a "prominent German security expert."
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