Bulgaria: Former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov released

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The former Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisovwho was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of corruption, was released today, the country’s television broadcast.

“It was brutal and frustrating, we returned in communism“, He said, adding that he was not prosecuted.

“They came to my house while we were having dinner. “They did not find anything and when I thought they would leave, they told me, I was embarrassed: We have to arrest you”, the 62-year-old politician said.

THE prosecution has not yet issued any announcement on this case.

THE Borisov was arrested in the context of a major police operation ordered by the Ministry of the Interior, “in relation to 120 cases of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office”, but without the cooperation of the national public prosecutor’s offices. Two members of Borisov’s conservative GERB party, including former Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov, were also detained.

THE advocate of Borisov, Menko Menkov, spoke of an “arbitrary” decision. Hundreds of GERB supporters demonstrated early in the morning in downtown Sofia.

According to Finance Minister Assen Vassilev, Boyko Borisov considered suspect that was bribed by gambling mogul Vassil Boycock, with in return the tax return. The businessman, who fell out of favor in early 2020, explained in a Facebook post on Thursday that he described the scam to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The Luxembourg-based European Public Prosecutor’s Office declined to comment.

“This is an abuse of public money,” he said Kirill Petkov, who has pledged to show “zero tolerance” towards corruption in the poorest country in the European Union. “There are no more people that no one touches,” he added.

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