Fri, May 25 2012

Borissov repeats announcement of declassification in Gallery case

Thu, Aug 06 2009 18:05 CET

byRene Beekman

1163 Views
On August 6, after his first meeting with incoming head of the State Agency for National Security (SANS), Tsvetlin Yovchev, that information in the so-called Gallery case was to be declassified, Borissov repeated the announcement former SANS head Petko Sertov made in January 2009.

The information would be declassified "because of the wide public interest," a government media statement said.

The Gallery investigation was ostensibly meant to ferret out politicians who leaked information to the media.

As The Sofia Echo reported earlier, Sertov had issued a declassification order on January 6, saying that a working group would be created which would decide what information would be made available. There was, however, no deadline set for when the working group would be finished.

Yovchev still has to be officially appointed by President Georgi Purvanov.

  • Print
  • Send via email
  • Translate to
  • Share:

To post comments, please, Login or Register.


Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.

Former SANS deputy lashes out at superior

Former deputy head of SANS, Drashkov, lashed out at his former superior Sertov, accusing him of lying. Sertov ordered phone tapping of journalists, Drashkov said.

Boiko Borissov: the state will cover damages from tremor

Boiko Borissov: "We will stop traveling by airplane, we will travel less. We will make all the saving necessary from the top, to provide money for the needy"

Rewind and overwrite

Cabinet to curtail SANS powers and resurrect former Interior Ministry organised crime-fighting unit

PM Borissov accepts resignation of SANS head

Borissov accepted the resignation, thanking Petko Sertov for his work at SANS, but said that he wanted to streamline the agency's work and 'raise its authority'.

Bulgarian security agency to declassify information

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.

More in this category

Saab awarded $2.4M military training equipment contract in Bulgaria

The funding is provided under the foreign military sales programme of the US army's Program Executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation.

Two Brits fined for hooliganism in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo

The UK nationals were arrested after throwing beer bottles at people after being refused entry to a restaurant that had closed for the night.

Tourism: Bulgaria to spend 300M leva on restoring castles, ancient sites

Restoration and development projects include Madara Horseman, Arbanassi fortress, Magura cave.

Sovereign Order of Malta assists hospital in Bulgaria’s Iskrets

Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his spouse Margarita opened a new heating and insulation system at the Tsar Ferdinand Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases in Iskrets, a project implemented thanks to the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Sofia and the Nando Peretti Foundation.

Bulgarian Parliament passes confiscation act

According to the law's provisions, the commission will have the power to investigate individuals without prior notification and would not require a criminal conviction in order to launch an investigation.

© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.