Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) chairman and floor leader Delyan Peevski sent to the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor's Office and the State Agency for National Security (SANS) the report on the activities of the 49th National Assembly's ad hoc committee investigating the corrupt practices in the Customs Agency and the possible role of former Finance Minister Assen Vassilev in them. This is stated in a press release from the party on Wednesday.
The report details what those heard by the committee had to say. These are Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov, SANS chairman Plamen Tonchev, caretaker Finance Minister Assen Vassilev, Boyko Rashkov and many others, as well as responses from various institutions.
The case involves revelations of corrupt practices at the Customs Agency, notoriously involving senior government officials, politicians and smugglers.
According to Peevski, the Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Interior and SANS should be made aware of the findings in the report, taking action as appropriate to bring the whole truth to light.
“Not a single corruption scandal should remain unsolved in order to restore the trust of Bulgarian citizens in the institutions and the State. Bulgarian citizens need to know which political elite stole their money. Because this is money that should have been in the budget and should have been for the people. That is why it is necessary for the institutions to work and not to hide the truth,” Peevski said, quoted by the party's press centre.
Marin Dimitrov, his son Stefan, the former director of the Customs Agency Petya Bankova and the former Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior Zhivko Kotsev have been charged in the case after the raid in the Customs Agency.
Peevski said that CC-DB are again trying to rebrand themselves as an anti-corruption party. He added that he has yet to tell how "the affairs of the entire CC-DB coalition, of their 'father' Radev, have been covered up". The MP questioned why the prosecutor's office does not do anything and pointed out that there are cases and inspections that are not being dealt with, such as the Lukoil case and the pressure on Minister Yolovski (Alexander Yolovski, minister of e-government in the Denkov cabinet - ed.).
"I want to know how many meetings Hristo Ivanov - Sheherazade has had with the head of the court and the Prosecutor General," Delyan Peevski said, but did not answer journalists' questions about which court and which prosecutor general he was talking about.
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