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The Bulgarian Socialist Party says it discovered that EU Commissioner Jeleva was involved in conflict of interests going back to 2007. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria’s EU Commissioner-Designate, Rumiana Jeleva, was involved in a conflict of interests as far back as 2007 when she was elected a MEP, according to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
Shortly before Jeleva’s hearing at the Development Committee of the European Parliament on Tuesday, the Socialists gave a press conference.
They announced that when Jeleva was elected Member of the European Parliament in 2007, she was also the manager of a trading company called Globul Consult.
According to Denitsa Zlateva from the Executive Bureau of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Bulgarian legislation stipulates that the MEPs are not entitled to conduct other sorts of activities in addition to their work at the EP.
She said the BSP had found out that Jeleva was dismissed as the manager of the trading firm only in April 2009.
The Socialists said their wish to Jeleva was that she would abide by the laws in all of her endeavors from now on.
Jeleva’s bid for becoming the new EU Commissioner for humanitarian aid has been marred by rumors spread in the EU institutions and cited by some European media that her husband had been involved in contacts with the Russian mafia and had worked for the murky Varna-based corporation TIM.
Jeleva and the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov have dismissed the rumors as attempts to slander the name of Bulgaria and the ruling GERB party.
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