Petko Sertov, head of Bulgarian State Agency for National Security (SANS) has issued an order to declassify information about the Gallery case, Bulgarian broadcaster Mediapool.bg said.

The Gallery case followed SANS's investigation into and subsequent close down of the Opasnite website in 2008. Opasnite was a website which published anonymous rumours, which, according to SANS contained classified information. Subject of most of the posting on the website were Bulgarian politicians, including President Georgi Purvanov and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, as well as SANS agent, businessman and professor Alexei Petrov.

Opasnite was run by journalist Ognyan Stefanov and businessman Mladen Mutafchiyski.

Aim of SANS's Gallery case was alledgedly to trace the contacts of Stefanov with people from political circles. The case ended however with a row when it was uncovered that phones of journalists of almost all national media and members of parliament had been tapped.
The row broke out when members of the parliamentary group that was supposed to oversee SANS's work, found their phones had been tapped as part of the Gallery case.

The parliamentary group sent all documents on the case to the prosecutors' office and asked the prosecutors' opinion on whether or not SANS officials had committed a crime with the formation and maintenance of the Gallery case.

Four months since past and the prosecution has not ruled yet, Mediapool.bg said.

Sertov was said to have issued the order for declassification on January 6. Under the order, a working group would be created which would decide what information would be made availble. There was no limit set for when the working group had to finish their work, Mediapool.bg said.