Boyko Borisov
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov wanted to declare Russian diplomats undesirable due to the case of espionage in favor of Moscow, in the framework of the investigation of which six people had previously been detained. This was reported by TASS on Saturday, March 20, with reference to the government press service.
“Once again, we have to declare Russian diplomats undesirable persons,” Borisov said. At the same time, he called the arrests in the espionage case a demonstration action. The prime minister stressed that in the future, the country's special services will similarly defend their security and independence.
On March 19, the Bulgarian prosecutor's office announced that six employees of the Bulgarian Defense Ministry and military intelligence were detained on suspicion of spying for Russia.
In January, the Bulgarian prosecutor's office opened pre-trial investigations against two Russian diplomats in an espionage case. It was established that from 2017 to the present, one of them was engaged in espionage activities, collecting information about the electoral process in Bulgaria. It is established that he has diplomatic immunity as the first secretary of the consular section of the Russian embassy in Sofia.
It is noted that the second Russian in the period from October 2018 to the present has been collecting information that constitutes state and official secrets in the field of energy. He then sent her to the headquarters of the Russian intelligence service in Moscow.
