In an apparent attempt to play down the significance of a scandalous secretly taped recording that recently leaked in Bulgarian media, Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has made a peculiar parallel between himself and tennis star Novak Djokovic.

“Djokovic has also been to my home. I hope they didn’t eavesdrop on him, too, because you have no idea how he swears,” Borisov told reporters on Friday.

The Prime Minister obviously referred to the fact that he was heard uttering a number of profanities and vulgarities during the leaked conversation in which he and two other officials were discussing ways to obstruct justice.

The notorious recording was between Borisov, former Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov and now former Sofia City Prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov. It leaked in Bulgarian media at the end of April.

The conversation was filled with insults of prosecutors, politicians, and journalists, including ridicule of some of them over considered by the three officials to be homosexual.

The talk in the scandalous 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.

Borisov has protested the fact that he was secretly recorded in his home on several occasions now, refusing to address the contents of the conversation.

Borisov’s center-right Cabinet resigned amid massive anti-poverty protests in February, prompting President Rosen Plevneliev to adjourn the Parliament, appoint a caretaker Cabinet and schedule elections for May 12.

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