A spokesman for the special prosecutor’s office insisted that the department was tirelessly investigating the case with the house and Miss Bikini.
Almost 2 years after the start of the Barcelonagate investigation and 8 months after the public statement that the special prosecutor’s office is working on money laundering, it became clear that the agency sent a European investigation order to Cyprus last Thursday to reveal banking secrecy and provide data from the local Trade Register. This was announced tonight on Nova TV by the spokesman of the special prosecutor’s office Hristo Krastev. The purpose of his TV participation was to convince viewers that Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov was wrong, accusing the prosecutor’s office of deliberately delaying investigations into former Prime Minister Borissov. And to threaten that the investigation will be blocked if the special prosecutor’s office is closed, as planned by the new government. Speaker Krastev was particularly frugal in sharing details about what he said was “the intensive work of the prosecution” because “revealing the objective truth” could be thwarted. “The order for Cyprus is related to the suspicion that money is being laundered from Bulgaria, through Cyprus to Spain,” Krastev said. This suspicion is a fact, as soon as the scandal broke out about the house, Miss Bikini, the fictitious husband and the fashion boutique.
In the middle of the week, a scandal broke out in absentia between the Ministry of Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office over who received what documents from Spain in the Barcelonagate case. Spokesman Krastev reiterated that the Spanish report sent to the Interior Ministry had no signatures or authors. It is not clear who did it and why and concluded that it is probably operational information of the Spanish Ministry of Interior to ours. The people named in this report (Boyko Rashkov said they were Yordan Hristov, Ilian Penev-Matsola, Boyko Borisov, ed. Note) are not news to the prosecution and have already been questioned. Regarding Borisov’s interrogation, the spokesman said: “In October 2021, a person who held a high state position, namely former Prime Minister Borissov, was interrogated. Other politicians were not questioned. Other public figures were not summoned unless Mr. Ms. Yovcheva can be called a public figure. ” It was only last week that it was announced that Yovcheva was questioned last fall about the house in Barcelona. The spokesman again refused to give any details so as not to harm the “disclosure of objective truth.”
He stressed that the Spanish report sent to them by both the Interior Ministry and SANS could not serve as evidence in the investigation. There were media photos in it, which the prosecutor’s office does not know if they are real, but it could be assumed that one shows two people, one in a suit and looking like Boyko Borissov.
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