Bulgaria’s former prime minister Boiko Borissov was released from custody about 24 hours after he and two figures from his former government were taken in by police.
There had been allegations that they would be charged with extortion. But he, former finance minister Vladislav Goranov and a former spokesperson for a Borissov government, Sevdalina Arnaudova, were released without charge.
He describe his detention as “brutal, nasty, they took us back to communism”.
Borissov’s counsel, Menko Menkov, told reporters that no charges had been filed, that the grounds for the police custody had indicated extortion, but there was no indication who had been the subject of this extortion, when, how and for what reasons.
