site.btaFinance Ministry Has No Information about Foreign Security Services Requesting Change in Leadership of Customs Agency

The Finance Ministry has received no official information from security services of partner countries of Bulgaria requesting a change in the leadership of the National Customs Agency, caretaker Finance Minister Lyudmila Petkova said Tuesday. She was questioned at a hearing of the parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee tasked with investigating corrupt practices in the Agency and the possible role of former finance minister Assen Vassilev in those practices. No official visits to the Ministry's building were recorded, either, Petkova stressed.