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PM: SANS lost trust and confidence at home, abroad

Thu, Nov 05 2009 11:41 CET byNick Iliev 795 Views
PM: SANS lost trust and confidence at home, abroad

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov

German publication Spiegel has reportedly obtained a ‘"secret" report from the Bulgarian State Agency for National Security (SANS), in the latest scandal to engulf the agency, the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) reported on November 5 2009.

Allegedly, the top secret report contains "sensitive information pertaining to internal affairs for the first six months of 2009," BNT says.

The information concerns the mishandling of European funds, kidnappings and racketeering as well as information on international terrorist organisations.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told Focus News Agency that the real damage is to the agency's reputation and that, through its incompetence, it has lost respect and confidence not only in Bulgaria but also abroad.

Borissov told a news conference, quoted by Focus, that as a consequence of the agency’s problems, heads of international intelligence agencies as well as foreign ambassadors based in Bulgaria had deliberately avoided co-operating with the organisation.

Accordingly, given the stature of the beleaguered agency, Borissov was caught in a dilemma whether to have it closed. Reportedly, SANS was allocated 96 million leva of which 92 per cent were allocated for wages, resulting "only in scandals", Borissov told Focus.

Borissov told representatives of SANS at the round-table conference that as of now, the state would no longer tolerate the organisation's "scandals".

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