The three Sunday papers write about the Monday meeting of Prosecutor General Nikola Filchev with investigators and prosecutors working on major cases. At the meeting the magistrates will report the progress of cases on big frauds, bank scams and contract murders. This principle is part of the new public contract that people and incumbents signed in the winter of 1997. Now, the government is still a debtor under this contract. The author makes a connection between the fact that the Prime Minister is in a hurry to form a new government and the prosecutor general is in a hurry to hand over to the court the major crime cases.
Corruption seems to be the linking word.
Filchev obviously is rushing to get rid of the big cases because new ones are looming up. It cites again the Prime Minister's interview on Darik Radio, where he said that before the end of this year the Government will decide whether to endorse or not a proposal of the National Council on Radio and Television and the State Telecommunications Committee to grant a licence for national private TV operator to Balkan News Corporation of Rupert Murdoch. The author quotes sources close to the president's office, according to whom the scales were tipped in favour of Murdoch during the recent Bulgarian visit of US President Bill Clinton who lobbied for this media magnate before the Bulgarian President and Prime Minister. The paper also writes that Murdoch is making a steady progress towards his goal - a world TV net. He has an empire spreading on five continents with 829 daughter companies in 57 countries.