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Democratic Bulgaria co-chairman Atanas Atanasov calls for investigation into whether politicians have been bugged

General Atanas Atanasov
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“Three units of the special services have been engaged in misuse of special investigation techniques for political purposes, for control and surveillance of politicians,” retired General Atanas Atanasov, co-chair of Democratic Bulgaria party stated in an interview for BNR’s Horizont channel. He urged interim Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov to “undertake a thorough investigation”.

Atanas Atanasov called for tracking which individuals have been bugged using special investigation techniques in the past 3 months by the Internal Security Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior, as well as materials obtained using special investigation techniques from which case files have been destroyed since the caretaker government was appointed.



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