Leaks suggest Bulgarian MEP staged slander campaign against Georgieva | EurActiv

Leaks suggest Bulgarian MEP staged slander campaign against Georgieva | EurActiv

Leaked correspondence published yesterday (13
February) links MEP Iliana Iotova (S&D, Bulgaria) to a public
relations firm in her country, which has offered and apparently provided
personal brand services to Iotova, but also an alleged badmouthing
campaign against Bulgarian Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva. 

A video showing a hacker introducing what appears to be the correct password for Iotova’s email account was first published on the website Balkanleaks, which specialises in anonymous sharing of sensitive information.

The investigative website Bivol published on Thursday (13 February)
excerpts from an email, which represents an offer made by the public
relations company Leadway Media Solutions to Iotova. The PR service
package is offered by Aneta Avramova, an official in the company.

Accordingly, Avramova has offered Iotova 50 comments in internet
forums per month, 150 comments in Facebook and 50 tweets, as well as 15
press publications per month. The PR company also offered to create a
“thematic internet group” to campaign under the motto 'Where has the
money for the refugees disappeared?'

The issue of Syrian refugees is a sensitive topic in Bulgaria, which
is one of the poorest countries in the EU and ill-equipped to deal with
the arrival of some 11,000 asylum seekers in just a few months.

“It is a pleasure to work for you and to be a member of your team,”
Avramova wrote to Iotova. Her mobile number is indicated in the email,
but EurActiv was not able to get through to any of the tele

  

Iliana Iotova, photo Dnevnik, the EurActiv partner in Bulgaria