Nikola Minchev's explanations about the corruption scandal are born with the sweaty pink readings in the style of "50 shades of European Parliamentarianism".
His version goes like this: his assistant Adam Mukhtar invited him to the match between Anderlecht and Ludogorets in Brussels. The invitations were from his friend (the assistant) because his child had a birthday. The tickets, quite coincidentally, were for a luxury box and at "Huawei". Minchev was innocent, he did not know that he was being pushed into such a corporate web. Now he would cooperate with the Belgian authorities in clarifying the truth.
This was commented on "Facebook" by Alexander Simov.
So - they put him in a super-luxurious box at a stadium, there are representatives of the corporate giant there, he talks to them, but otherwise he is absolutely innocent. He did not suspect anything. The Chinese simply liked him as a person and a politician and wanted to get his autograph and take a selfie with him.
This is a story in the style of "Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue". Let me remind you that the ironic monster de Sade describes a heroine who is the embodiment of values and morality, but who knows why some men always abuse her unhealthily.
Minchev has no experience as an MEP, but he should know that such an expensive ticket was hardly given by chance. The case reminds me a lot of that experiment on bTV many years ago, when they caught a lot of MPs going to a presentation of "Vertu" phones with the idea of getting a free one.
However, the case with Minchev is bigger and scarier. In his fifth month as an MEP, he is already visiting luxury boxes at stadiums and claiming innocence. In general, the version "I didn't know what was going on, I didn't suspect anything" is so stupid, mediocre and ridiculous that it actually increases suspicions about this MEP rather than dispelling them. If he didn't know, then he should resign due to his boundless stupidity. And if he suspected, then he is so guilty that there is no other way.
And most media in Bulgaria pretended for months that there was no such scandal, that the topic was almost trivial.
The European press had to get moving so that the melodrama with Minchev could reach our latitudes.
True media freedom.