Emin Hussein, father of Movement and Rights and Freedoms official Ahmed Emin who was found dead in the house of party leader Ahmed Dogan in 2008, insisted in a February 26 2010 television interview that his son was killed and could not have committed suicide.
 
Controversy around the death of Ahmed Emin has been revived in recent days, with Prime Minister Boiko Borissov lashing out at the investigation conducted at the time – which proved inconclusive but suggested that Emin had shot himself – had been bungled.
 
Some political rivals of Dogan’s party, which is led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent, have alleged that the investigation by prosecutors and the State Agency for National Security had been deliberately negligent.
 
Speaking to Bulgarian National Television, Emin’s father declined to clarify who he believed had been behind his son’s death.
 
Earlier, it was alleged that Emin had been working undercover for the State Agency for National Security and had been infiltrated into Dogan’s party to "destroy" Dogan.
 
Speaking to journalists, Kamen Kostadinov, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) MP and a member of the party's national leadership, said that the party had received reports that Emin had met on a number of occasions with Alexei Petrov, the business person and former secret service agent who has been a main target of Bulgaria’s Operation Octopus.
 
Kostadinov said that, however, there had been no evidence to confirm that there had been meetings between Emin and Petrov.
 
State Agency for National Security head Tsvetlin Yovchev denied that Emin had been employed by the agency or by the National Security Service.
 
Bulgarian-language mass-circulation daily 24 Chassa quoted Mihail Mikov, who was interior minister in the socialist-led government that included Dogan’s party, as dismissing allegations about a plot to murder Dogan as implausible, and said that if Dogan’s party had evidence that Emin’s death was not a suicide, it should show it.
 
"Of course, we do not have any evidence and it is not our job to collect evidence," Kostadinov said.
 
"It is clear this was a planned, purposeful blow against MRF leader, against the whole party. Fortunately, it failed," he said.
 
During the investigation into the Octopus crime group, facts and evidence connected with Ahmed Emin’s suicide emerged, Bulgarian news agency Focus quoted General Atanas Atanasov, a former MP from the right-wing Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, as saying.

Speaking in the Lobby at Parliament, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said that he did not believe any version about Emin’s death unless evidence could be offered.
 
The relevant investigators would follow up all theories about Emin’s death, Tsvetanov said, adding that Prime Minister Borissov and Prosecutor-General Boris Velchev had said that there was a feeling among the public that the initial investigation had been flawed from the outset.
 
Only once this new investigation was completed could any conclusions be drawn, Tsvetanov said.