Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has resurrected questions about the death of Ahmed Emin, who in 2008 was found dead of a gunshot wound in a house owned by Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
 
Borissov has sent documentation, including files from an investigation by the State Agency for National Security, to Prosecutor-General Boris Velchev, after saying that he was "convinced" that at the time of the probe into Emin’s death, the Interior Ministry and prosecutors had made serious mistakes or "at least were negligent".
 
At the time that Emin died, Dogan’s party – which is supported and in the main led by Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent – was a part of the socialist-led tripartite coalition government that was in power from 2005 to 2009, when Borissov’s party was elected into office.

Borissov repeatedly has identified Dogan's party as his chief political enemy, and Dogan has been the subject of a series of controversies in politics and the media, including when Dogan said during the 2009 election campaign that the real power in Bulgaria was in his hands.
 
Emin had been chief of Dogan’s office and was a close associate of the MRF leader.
 
According to a report by Bulgarian National Television, Borissov said that while he did not want to interfere in the work of prosecutors, he believed that the matter should be reviewed.
 
"As a policeman (Borissov previously was with the Interior Ministry and was for some time its chief secretary) I am very puzzled by the way this investigation was conducted. Highly puzzled," Borissov said.
 
There seemed to have been a "lack of interest," he said.
 
Ivan Kostov, co-leader of the centre-right Blue Coalition, and a former head of the Parliamentary committee on the State Agency for National Security, welcomed the resumption of interest in the Emin case, bTV reported on February 24 2010.
 
Kostov said that the question of the handling of documents that had been taken from Emin’s office should be investigated.
 
The official investigation into the death of Emin was officially closed on April 14 2009.
 
At the time, Bulgarian-language Dnevnik daily quoted prosecutor Alexander Nalbantov as saying that the investigation had not established the reason why Emin, an MRF official and father of two, had decided to end his life. Emin used his legally-owned firearm to commit suicide, while MRF leader Dogan was in the room next door.
 
A total of 85 people were questioned in relation to the incident.
 
Prosecutors concluded that there was no evidence suggesting that someone had forced Emin to end his life, notwithstanding speculation and allegations by former MRF members.
 
Emin's motive to end his life was a personal, not professional one, Nalbantov said.
 
The investigation had found that on the day of his death, Emin went to work dressed in a black suit, not in his usual casual wear. This, investigators said, showed that he had planned to kill himself.
 
Investigators had found that Emin had been highly responsible and committed to the MRF cause, Nalbantov said
 
He had been in a good physical and mental state and had not been under the influence of alcohol or drugs when he decided to pull the trigger, they said.
 
Dogan, who after the incident claimed that Emin's suicide was an attack on the MRF, was questioned twice. In his first media appearance after the suicide, Dogan said that Emin was a low-profile MRF functionary, "just a secretary", dismissing allegations that Emin had been involved in alleged MRF funding under the table.