SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov was sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday for refusing to allow legal wiretapping in a probe against a former senior police official.
Tsvetanov, who is also the second most senior politician in the main opposition GERB party, denied any wrongdoing, saying that in refusing to carry out a judge's ruling to wiretap the former head of a regional organised crime police unit, he had followed the country's laws.
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