The Chairman of the Socialist Parliamentary Group said Thursday Bulgaria's Chief Investigator Anguel Alexandrov should be dismissed if he refuses to resign from the post.

Mihail Mikov considers the crisis in Bulgaria's investigations service a result of heaping of unsolved problems.

The investigation head was accused of demanding money from the CEO of the country's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac for the use of the institution he heads.

The news was announced by Bulgartabac CEO Hristo Lachev on Wednesday.

He refused to say when, for what and how much money he was asked for by Alexandrov.

Alexandrov wanted to get information for Deputy Economy Minister Kornelia Ninova, who represents the ministry in the state reserve and Bulgartabac.

The head of the investigations service said the attacks against him come from the Economy Minister Rumen Ovcharov. Later in the day, Alexandrov even accused the minister of threatening him.

Ovcharov's two middlemen pressured Alexandrov to stop poking around certain cases that may lead to the Minister. The investigator claims that at some point the investigation reached a level at which national security was concerned. From February 19th on, he only shared information on the case directly and personally to Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev. Alexandrov claimed that in one of the instances, the info he told Velchev had reached Ovcharov just an hour later.

Investigators Tanya Sharlandzhieva and Zoya Ivanova had leaked the information, Alexandrov claimed.

Ovcharov said in a brief statement that the whole deal was a pity and that he hoped the whole case would be cleared up and that the guilty ones would be punished.

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