The leader of the list in Pleven is the deputy who is under investigation for buying votes, BNT has learned.
On Friday, Acting Interior Minister Atanas Ilkov announced that there is an investigation into a vote-buying scheme involving a former member of parliament, who is also part of the newly elected parliament.
According to the investigators, there was evidence that the scheme was organized for the driver of the list from the APS, and his questioning was pending.
According to media sources, investigators managed to gather evidence of election trading in the last week of the campaign, as well as on election day itself. The investigation into the scheme for election trading starts from a detected connection between a group of moneylenders with local authorities in small settlements in Plevensko.
Evidence has been gathered that a scheme is being built by intermediaries to buy votes for the list of one of the coalitions participating in the elections.
Leather leader Mario Kirov, contacted by BNT, stated that he was abroad with his family and could not understand what the problem was that they were looking for him so much. He had no information about the case, he was coming home on Monday and he would see what it was about. "So you really call on weekends and yes...it's just not correct", concludes Kirov after the call from Ivo Nikodimov from "Around the world and in our country".
The case of vote buying in Pleven was taken over by the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office due to the presence of data on the complicity of a person with immunity to the scheme. However, the immunity of any MP has not been requested so far.