Bulgaria's interior ministry suspects an Irishman and his Bulgarian wife to have hatched the bomb threat plot in Bansko at the beginning of February, which incurred the winter resort huge losses.

Owen McGraw and his wife Fidanka Bacheva have been summoned for interrogation by the police in the town of Blagoevgrad, reports say.

The summons explained that the e-mail with the bomb threat was sent from an Internet cafГ© in Sofia, equipped with cameras and the description that the staff gave matched Owen's.

The wife Fidanka Bacheva claims that police advised her husband to confess to the crime, because "thus it would be easier for him".

The ski runs in Bansko were closed on February 1 after the unknown until them Ravnodenstvie environmental organization claimed to have planted a bomb there. The explosive device aimed to set off an avalanche in protest against the unbridled and illegal construction works in the mountain resort, the bomb scarers said in a letter to the media and the environment ministry.

The letter was traced back to a Russian server and reports appeared that Russian special services are helping their Bulgarian colleagues to disclose the menacers. No explosive device was found and life in Bansko returned to its normal pace with the re-opening of the ski runs later in the week.

Bacheva is member of "Za Zemyata" environmental organization and works as coordinator of Bankwatch for the Balkans. Her husband is IT developer.

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