With 146 votes for and 28 against, Parliament decided on February 7 that a parliamentary investigating committee would examine the Kujovic case, Dnevnik daily said.

Alleged drug trafficker, Montenegrin-born Budimir Kujovic was at the centre of a row in the interior ministry, over which deputy director of the Razgrad police Todor Dimov was released from his position. Dimov then accused former Chief secretary of the Interior Ministry Iliya Iliev of signing off on the operation in which a passport was issued to Kujovic. Dimov said there was an “umbrella” within the police and Interior Ministry structures to protect narcotics production in Bulgaria and he questioned the interests that Chief secretary of the Interior Ministry Valentin Petrov had in the Kujovic case.
When questioned by army regional prosecutor Spas Iliev, Dimov denied his allegations and said he never had any evidence. According to Spas Illiev the row had been "a matter of interpretation by the entire journalistic profession."

Dimov was subsequently reinstated at a demoted level as chief of a crime fighting unit.

The parliamentary committee will investigate the causes and conditions under which the passport had been issued to Kujovic, who previously had been banned from the country by the court for 10 years.

Head of the 14-member committee will be Nadka Baleva from the Bulgarian Socialist Party dominated Coalition for Bulgaria.