Eight people were charged and detained for up to 72 hours in the Danube city of Ruse in connection with yesterday’s joint operation of Bulgaria’s Chief Directorate Combating Organized Crime and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office, the Spokesperson of Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor Rumiana Arnaudova announced on Sunday. Seven of them were indicted of participating in organized criminal group engaged in racketeering since the beginning of 2015. The eight detainee is a woman who is charged along with four of the group’s members of kidnapping and extortion. Iliya, brother of Bulgarian MP Georgi Stoilov and Manuel, son of the head of the Traffic Police department in Ruse Mihail Manov, are among the detainees, Four metal batons, three pistols, one electric baton, 107 bullets, two knives and artillery “thunder” consisting of 400 grams of trotyl, were found during the raids.
The position Bulgaria is going to the NATO summit with indicates that Bulgaria could offer Ukraine EUR 80 million , caretaker PM Dimitar Glavchev told reporters in parliament. However, he added that whatever the sum, it can only become fact..
Hungary’s Deputy Interior Minister Bence Retvari stated that the abolition of Bulgaria and Romania’s Schengen borders by land is very important to the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU. We want to reach a decision by the end of the..
Yesterday, a new attempt was made to insinuate that Bulgaria would give cash to Ukraine, GERB leader Boyko Borissov said in parliament. At the closed session of the National Assembly discussing the NATO Summit in Washington, it became..
Sunday will be sunny and hot. There will be weak to moderate northeasterly wind. Temperatures will continue to rise and the highest..
The new Bulgarian Patriarch, Daniil, has spoken out in favour of reconciliation within the Orthodox churches. "There is a broken communion between..
The Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party is proposing to its partners in the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) coalition that..
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