The revelations prompted speculations in the local media that the purpose of what Petkov had described as a "working meeting" was to persuade the duo to stop shooting members of a rival gang in the run-up to Bulgaria's EU entry in January 2007.
Ta su otkrića u lokalnim medijima potakla nagađanja o tome kako je svrha onoga što je Petkov okarakterizirao kao "radni sastanak" bila uvjeriti dvojac da prestanu ubijati pripadnike suparničke bande uoči ulaska Bugarske u EU u siječnju 2007.