President Georgi Purvanov has taken a loan of 80 000 leva in 2007, according to this income declaration filed with the National Audit Office (NAO). Purvanov and his wife Zorka Purvanova have bought a plot of agriculture land in Ivanyane village near Sofia for the sum of 45 238 leva.

The list of all public officials was published by NAO on its website on June 30 2008. The deadline for submitting the declarations expired on April 30.

Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev and Georgi Pirinski, Speaker of Parliament, did not file declarations but have sent notifications to NAO saying that their income has not changed in 2007 and they have not acquired a single property last year.

Former Bulgarian king and prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg has stated that he has 3.8 million leva in the bank, of which 3.6 million were in a foreign bank. The source of the income was salaries.

In 2007, Saxe-Coburg, whose party the National Movement for Stability and Progress is part of the ruling coalition, has acquired a Mercedes 500 for the sum of 94 000 leva. He still owns a home in Madrid, bought in 1967 for the sum of 3.1 million leva.

Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, also part of the ruling coalition, has failed to make any savings in 2007. He has managed to buy three plots of land in his native village of Drandar near Varna for about 22 000 leva.

Volen Siderov, leader of ultra-nationalist Ataka party, has neither acquired nor saved any money in 2007.

Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov has received 125 000 leva in 2007 and has signed two real estate deals.

The state officials who have failed to file their declarations are one deputy minister, 13 mayors, five judges, nine prosecutors, three investigators, and seven members of various political parties. They will be reported to the National Revenue Agency and fined in accordance with the law.