Bulgaria did not have the resources to cope with kidnapping, Interior Minister Mihail Mikov said in the morning talk show of private broadcaster bTV. The challenge facing Bulgaria was how it would response to that situation.

“Criminals, be they Bulgarian or [from some other country] around the world, dispose of financial and technical resources and, unfortunately, people, which allows them to move one step ahead of the state,” Mikov said.

“The state has to have power to react to any kind of crime,” Mikov said.
 
Asked whether it was true that there were threats to the life of Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov, Mikov said that “the Interior Ministry uses many resources for the protection of Mr Borissov. I’m not sure whether it is related to his current concerns or his past”. The same applied to the situation of the protection of former interior minister Roumen Petkov.

Union of Democratic Forces leader Plamen Yuroukov commented on the statements that had him down as being an intelligence services collaborator in the morning show of Nova Television.

“Mr Koritarov, you are talking to me about things that are not clear to me. I neither know what an informer is, nor what a secret collaborator is, or what being an agent means,” he said. “I don’t want to know, either, unless I have to work on such laws.”

“These people [who claimed that I was an agent] either protect an organised criminal organisation, or are part of such.”

Yuroukov said: “I claim that I wasn’t an agent.”