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Prosecutor’s Office: “There has been no illegal eavesdropping on politicians and protesters”
Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has terminated the investigation into reports about illegal tapping of politicians and protesters, saying no evidence had been found, the Prosecutor’s Office said on July 19.
The investigation established that no evidence has been found in the State Agency for National Security (SANS), Ministry of Interior and the State Agency for Technical Operations (SATO) for the application of special intelligence-gathering devices in relation to candidates for MPs and representatives of political parties.
The Prosecutor's office said it had checked all requests for the use of special intelligence-gathering devices, referring to allegations by politicians that political representatives had been eavesdropped en masse during last summer's protests.
They also said that it had been explicitly checked whether the President, Vice President, caretaker Prime Minister and former Prime Minister had been eavesdropped. It was established that no special intelligence-gathering devices were applied to them either.
The Prosecutor's office announced that inspections had been carried out at SANS, the Ministry of Interior and SATO.
The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office had assigned the National Bureau for Control of Special Intelligence Means to check on the services using special intelligence-gathering tools, which had found that no political leaders were under covert surveillance.
No violations were found by employees of these services. A comparison was also made of the names of the candidates for Members of Parliament in the 45th National Assembly with those to whom the covert intelligence had been applied and it had established that candidates for MPs had not been eavesdropped.
In the BNT programme "More from the Day", the leader of DSB Gen. Atanas Atanasov commented that the place for solving this case is the Parliament.
Because only through a Parliamentary Committee could the violations be established and not only be they established, but also a mechanism be sought for their termination and prevention of this thing from happening. I don't know what Sofia Prosecutor’s office checked, but I just want to say something important. They have a conflict of interest. Because the Prosecutor's office is a body that makes the requests, files the application for use of intelligence-gathering devices and now we have to accept that they are objective when they have checked themselves. The inspection must be carried out by an independent body.
The Prosecutor's office also announced that two pre-trial proceedings had been opened in the Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime (CDCOC). One for the distribution of cigarettes without excise labels, and the other for the production and distribution of marijuana and amphetamines. According to them, it was established that there were candidates for MPs among those who were eavesdropped and the application of the intelligence-gathering devices was immediately terminated, and the materials were reported to the Specialized Prosecutor's Office.
The investigation also found that no covert surveillance was applied by the Internal Security Directorate of the Ministry of Interior to politicians and MPs.
The Prosecutor’s office also claims that during the investigation they used all methods to gather evidence, but did not find any that indicate that there was an illegal use of special intelligence-gathering tools.
In the BNT programme “More from the Day", Atanas Atanasov also said that he is ready to propose a parliamentary inquiry committee to carry out its inspection, but first he will discuss with his colleagues whether the parliamentary committee on control of special services should deal with it, if such is set up.
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