Sofia City Court postponed once again the hearing on the case of the Bulgarian former Agriculture Minister Ventsislav Varbanov on Monday.

Varbanov is charged with malfeasance in office in his capacity of former agriculture minister and with draining the country's agriculture fund in between 1998 and 2001.

The case hearing was put off because one of the witnesses on the case was not summoned to court as is needed in such cases.

The next hearing will be held on October 30.

Varbanov's case entered the court only after he gave up his MP immunity in May 2006. He was an MP from the tiniest right-wing party in Parliament Bulgarian People's Union.

He has been spied on by the National Security Service NSO, a former employer of the services claimed last week.

According to Nikolay Markov President Georgi Parvanov, leader of the ethnic Turkish junior coalition partner Ahmed Dogan, former Sofia mayor Stefan Sofianski, nationalist leader Volen Siderov and Varbanov have become targets of spying by NSO.

The former NSO official triggered a political storm this week after claiming that the service collects information about the persons it guards and misuses it for political purposes.

Varbanov himself said he was did not feel uneasy because of being spied on, because he had nothing to hide.

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