The exact amount of money given when buying votes is difficult to determine, as they vary in different parts of the country. This was commented in Burgas by the caretaker Minister of Interior Emil Dechev, who arrived in the coastal city for a meeting with the management of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior. Together with him were the Deputy Minister of Interior Kaloyan Kaloyanov and the acting Chief Secretary Georgi Kandev.
It is normal at this moment to have activity regarding violations of election laws. We should not forget that the people who are involved in buying votes are inventive - buying votes is carried out in different ways. It can be with cash, trust deals in grocery stores, through firewood and others. The techniques are diverse, said Dechev.
In Burgas, Kandev announced that proceedings have been initiated against the man arrested this morning in Botevgrad for buying votes. "It is under Art. 167 of the Criminal Code. In the notebooks seized from his home, names and personal identification numbers were found. At the moment, we cannot comment on which political parties the votes were bought for, as we are in a pre-election campaign," added Georgi Kandev. According to him, in rare cases, law enforcement agencies find money, personal documents, and lists of names in one place.
Earlier today, the Ministry of Interior announced on its website that two notebooks with written names and amounts of money against them were seized from a home in Botevgrad. Georgi Kandev announced that about 130,000 euros in different currencies were found.