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 otkrića dovela su do spekulacija u lokalnim medijima da je svrha tog, kako ga Petkov opisuje, „radnog sastanka“, bila da se dvojica mafijaša ubede da prestanu da ubijaju pripadnike protivničkog ganga pred ulazak Bugarske u EU u januaru 2007.