Deputy Interior Minister Raif Moustafa resigned on June 14 2009, two days after the head the Executive Agency Fisheries, Marin Dimitrov, refused a 100 000 leva bribe, after private terrestrial broadcaster bTV said Moustafa had tried to pressure Dimitrov into accepting the bribe.

"Regardless of my certainty that I am innocent, I have resigned as deputy minister and I am asking the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) not to include my name in its elections list," Moustafa said in a statement, as quoted by Dnevnik daily. Moustafa was appointed deputy minister from the quota of the MRF, one of the three parties in the ruling coalition.

Dimitrov was offered the bribe by Rossen Marinov, co-owner of Avtoinzhenering company, who was arrested on June 11 in a joint raid by prosecutors and the State Agency for National Security.

Marinov first attracted media attention in February 2009, when his company Avtoinzhenering put up several billboards in front of the Government building, claiming it had not received money owed under an EU-funded project.
The billboards read: "Mrs Plougchieva (Deputy Prime Minister in charge of EU Funds), why have these boats not been paid to us for more than a year? Why does Bulgaria have to pay interest and defaults? Why did you lose the European funding for the project? Where is your communication, coordination and control?"
 
Plougchieva’s comment at the time was that the issue has been sent to court.
 
In March 2009 Marinov’s company applied for a tender organised by the Interior Minister for the supply of 42 fire-fighting vehicles. The tender procedure, however, was halted by Interior Minister Mihail Mikov.