The prosecutor's office will launch proceedings into how a year-old secret report by the National Security Agency (DANS), shedding light on the influence of criminal organisations within certain ministries and state agencies, ended up published online.

This was announced on Tuesday by Deputy City Prosecutor Roman Vassilev in an interview for the Bulgarian National TV channel.

The prosecutor explained that pre-trial proceedings have been launched to verify the authenticity of the report and the people who had obtained access to it.

The controversial top secret intelligence report of the Bulgarian State National Security Agency caused a weekend scandal and was published online on Monday evening.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced on Saturday that he had received the report from Alexey Petrov, former commander of the special anti-terrorist police unit, who also used to advise Petko Sertov, the former director of the agency.

According to Borisov, the report, written a year ago, was labeled as the copy sent to the prime minister. How it ended up with Petrov is unclear.

Under security protocols, all copies of confidential reports are to be returned to the security agency. Borisov said he has ordered experts to first determine whether the report is genuine.

If so, this will put Borisov's predecessor, Sergey Stanishev, chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, in direct violation of the law.

Borisov hinted that Stanishev was probably blackmailed by people mentioned in the report, which was why it didn't come back to the security agency.

The report confirms suspicions that the agency, which was established to protect national interests and fight high-level corruption and was sponsored by BGN 110 M of taxpayers' money each year, has been plagued by trench warfares and torn by conflicts.

What is said to be the original DANS Report in question is published HERE and HERE. The 26-page report is in Bulgarian.

The report is entitled, "Information Regarding the actions of persons and circles, exerting destructive influence on the functioning of ministries and structures of the state administration."

The authenticity of the report published online has not been confirmed, and it is unclear who posted it on the Internet.

The beginning paragraph of the alleged top secret report is the following:

“The data coming to DANS indicate the existence of a structure acting parallel to the state authority, which has serious opportunities, funds, and positions for influencing the executive and legislative authorities, and the political and social life in the country. This structure is aspiring to create sustainable forms of parallel authority within the state institutions and services, whose functioning would be guaranteed regardless of the changing of the ruling majority in the government and the Parliament. There are categorical data that representatives of business, state institutions, media, and organized criminal groups in certain cases undertake synchronized actions for achieving their common interests.”

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