Bulgaria PM to Alert Prosecutors over BGN 300 M of Drained VAT

Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, said Wednesday he was going to alert the Prosecutor’s Office over evidence for the draining of BGN 300 M of value-added tax.

Borisov announced that at the opening of a new sports ground in the Lyulin Quarter in Sofia but refused to give more details.

“The evidence under all inspections of the activities of the former government that we have completed so far – they are at least 40-50 – has already been submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office. Let’s leave the prosecutors alone so they can do their job. If there are facts and evidence, they are going to make them public,” Borisov declared.

“I have not stolen the secret documents from Stanishev’s desk and from the Interior Ministry. It was his people there, and Sertov was appointed by Stanishev. We were not in power then, the reports went missing during Stanishev’s term,” the Prime Minister said regarding the legal procedure for lifting the MP immunity of his predecessor so that he can be investigate over missing top secret reports of the Interior Ministry and the National Security Agency DANS.

Borisov added the Court was going to decide if Stanishev was guilty or not. “I know for myself that many violations have been committed,” he said.

“The documents missing from the Council of Ministers are the most important ones – about organized crime, contraband channels, special orders, the Oil for Food Program for Iraq. Now we don’t know where and who else outside the former government read them, and took the respective “measures”, the PM stated while making it clear he trusted the judgment of the court.