The access to classified information of the chairman of Commission for Combating Corruption and Confiscation of Illegally Acquired Property(CCCCIAP) Sotir Tsatsarov was taken away. This was confirmed to BNT by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov.

Today State agency for National Security (SANS) informed me that they have revoked the permission for access to classified information at the level of "top secret". The permit was revoked in the course of reliability control after data obtained from SANS, said the Prime Minister.

I can say that this work has been in preparation by SANS for a long time and I do not know whether Mr. Tsatsarov with his resignation yesterday assumed that this would happen today. At 9 o'clock this morning, representatives of SANS were waiting for him to hand him this information.

Yesterday, the former chief prosecutor announced his resignation in March. He is under investigation by SANS.

The prime minister added that he did not know if there was a connection between the resignation and the deprivation of access to information. I hope that the two things are not connected, because otherwise, it means that he knew about it, but I do not believe that, said Kiril Petkov.

He congratulated SANS that it is clear that all people must comply with the law and if there is evidence of something done wrong, the security services will not compromise with anyone. We are all equal before the law, stressed Kiril Petkov.

Our main platform was zero tolerance for corruption, from now on we will start working in this direction, the Prime Minister added.

I hope that today's act - this declaration to Mr. Geshev, the revocation of Mr. Tsatsarov's access, and as it turned out in the news that there are investigations in Bulgargaz, these are the right steps, Petkov added.

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Regarding the declaration demanding the resignation of Ivan Geshev, he commented that he had repeatedly said that in his opinion the Bulgarian prosecutor's office had not done its job in the way we hope, as there are many people who should be defendants but are not and in this regard, I welcome the declaration.

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