New justice minister betrays Transparency

The Executive Director of Transparency International Bulgaria, Diana Kovatcheva, will become Bulgaria's new minister of justice in 2012, the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyco Borisov announced on Monday. This means Kovatcheva is betraying the principles of her own organisation, writes Javor Datchkov in the online paper Glasove: "Now I understand why Transparency International remained silent when [in January 2011] recorded conversations were published which proved that Borisov and [the Minister of the Interior] Zvetanov were guilty of corruption. These recordings were made by the police and provided the most direct evidence of corruption at the highest levels that the media has ever witnessed. ... I, personally, know of no similar case in which there is such solid evidence of the prime minister of a country being corrupt. Because of people like Diana Kovatcheva and her organisation this scandal failed to have repercussions. In any normal country it would have toppled the government."

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