PM Boyko Borissov: Attacks against me come from people whose interest I have thwarted

"It's patently clear for everyone that the recent spurt of attacks against me is the result of the countless invested interests I have thwarted," Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Tuesday in connection to the declassified Buddha file. "This is a deliberate effort to discredit me but it won't work. If there was even an ounce of truth to the opposition's allegations, believe me, the U.S. President Barack Obama would't have welcomed me with a military parade, as has the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, I wouldn't have been given high praise as a policeman by all the directors of major national security services who have visited Bulgaria, I wouldn't have been awarded orders of merit by France and Spain for my police work," Borissov said. "I'm not an agent, I wouldn't have kept it a secret, if I were," he said on his way to a National Security Advisory Council meeting.

"This type of slander campaign is easy enough to devise. I could make anyone of you the target of similarly malicious allegations in a heartbeat," Borissov told reporters. "I could order the services to fabricate such files for every journalist in this country."

He said that prior to the return of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Bulgaria, Ivan Kostov and Atanas Atanasov were so agitated that they came up to him, given his spell as Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's bodyguard, to ask about the former king's political aspirations. "They were quite forceful in their efforts to find more about Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's return," Borissov said, adding that he was summoned by the services to attend a dinner at the Olympus restaurant where he was asked to tell what he knew about the former king.

"Why did Mladen Georgiev (the operative officer who recruited Borissov) come back to work for the Interior Ministry when Sergei Stanishev was Prime Minister and Rumen Petkov was Interior Minister?" Borissov wondered out loud. He reminded that Georgiev was among the first people to be hired in the new State Agency for National Security under Stanishev's watch.

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