Presidential Secretary for Legal Affairs and Anti-Corruption Plamen Uzunov helped former customs chief Petko Petkov have a liver transplant and therefore received an envelope containing rum and cigars from him. This is what Petkov himself told Nova TV.
A recording from the security cameras in the capital’s restaurant, where the two meet, was published by the site “AffairThe footage shows Plamen Uzunov collecting an envelope with unknown contents, brought by the former customs chief.
Petko Petkov explained that he and his presidential secretary are personal friends.
“It’s a personal meeting, a friendly one. He helped me with contact for surgery, they did a liver transplant on me“Petkov said. The conversation was personal.
“There is nothing to talk about customs. I left 10 years ago and I have nothing to do, except that I know the people there,” Petkov said.
“There was a bottle of rum and a box of cigars in the envelope. And this is for me personally for my health. There were no gold bars or bundles of euros inside,” Petkov added. The video also shows that Plamen Uzunov takes Petkov’s two phones and leaves them away with his own.
According to the former customs chief, this happened “to charge our phones, there are chargers there, you can go through the restaurant, see. We, if we have something to talk to Plamen Uzunov, according to the current conspiracy, whether we would allow ourselves to talk in the restaurant. That’s funny, “he said.
Petko Petkov believes that the recordings are an attack on Plamen Uzunov.
“In my opinion, the goal is to injure Uzunov in a brutal way,” he said. And he threatened to sue anyone who wrote compromising information against him.
There was also an official response from the presidency. It states that they “do not comment on manipulations”.
A reaction from GERB immediately followed.
“The comment from the presidency is not valid, because they do not owe an answer to us, but to the whole society. He is a former head of the capital’s Customs in the darkest years – in the late 90’s, when Samokovets committed the biggest smuggling in history. of Bulgaria “, said Toma Bikov.
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