Former Prime Minister and leader of center-right party GERB Boyko Borisov was interviewed Tuesday by the prosecuting authority as part of the probe over the so-called Bulgarian Watergate scandal.

Bulgaria's prosecuting authority issued a statement Wednesday in connection with a series of media publications on Tuesday's appearance of Borisov at the Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation.

According to the press release, on May 7 Borisov was summoned to be interviewed at the Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation in connection with the ongoing illegal wiretap leak probe.

The statement rejects allegations that Borisov was interviewed by Deputy Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov in his cabinet.

The prosecuting authority informs that the investigation into the matter continues.

The Bulgarian Watergate scandal unfurled at the end of March when Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), submitted a tipoff to Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, about alleged illegal wiretapping of politicians, businesspeople and magistrates which had taken place during the rule of Borisov's center-right GERB party (2009-2013).

At the end of April, a secretly recorded conversation between Borisov, former Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, and already-former Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, leaked in Bulgarian media, stirring a massive scandal.

The talk in the leaked recording basically revolves around corruption charges pressed against Naydenov and Kokinov being in hot water over breaches he had committed, and ways for both to get out of them.

Bulgaria's former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who currently heads the election campaign headquarters of center-right party GERB, faces charges of failing to exercise proper control over the use of special surveillance devices during his term in office.

However, Tsvetanov, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, cannot be charged because he is immune to prosecution as a candidate MP at the May 12 snap elections.

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