Bulgaria PM: I Wouldn't Be Mad at Russian Colleagues over Moscow Police Raid

Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, said Thursday he would not "create any obstacles" for the Russian police over their raid of a Bulgarian diplomatic facility in Moscow if there was actually a crime.

“From a purely legal, diplomatic point of view they have no right to enter there but if there is a person or a firm who committed a crime, I wouldn’t be mad at the Russian colleagues. If there is a crime there, I would do the same thing. If that is the case, I am not going to create any obstacles for them in any way,” said Borisov who is a former Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry, i.e. Bulgaria’s top cop position.

Borisov’s statement came several hours after the Russian police carried out a search at the residential apartment of the Bulgarian Industrial Center in Moscow, a premise which enjoys diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

In a phone interview for Novinite.com, a senior representative of the Economic Security Department of the Russian Interior Ministry said the special operation in Moscow had been carried out without any infringement of the Bulgarian diplomatic premises.

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