FinTelegram readers may recall. Israeli cybercrime principal Gal Barak, sentenced in 2020 to several years in prison for investment fraud and some €4 million in restitution payments, was a friend of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. At least he gave him and his minister friends nice money gifts and was therefore protected by the state. Boyko Borissov was detained late Thursday amid a wide-sweeping police investigation linked to probes by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.