The director of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, Vanyo Tanov passed away at the age of 58. In the period 1985-2007 Tanov was part of the system of the Ministry of the Interior up the ladder to becoming Major General. Vanyo Tanov has passed through training in Secret Service in Washington and in Holland. He has been working in international expert teams in the countries of the EU and Russia on issues related to terrorism and corruption. In 2005 he was appointed as director of the National Service for Fight against Organized Crime with the Interior Ministry but in July 2007 he resigned. In August 2009 Tanov was appointed to head the Customs Agency, while in July 2013 he was released from office. In August 2014, through a decree of the Minister of Finances Vanyo Tanov is again appointed to head the Customs Agency.
The spy network of Bulgarians led by Austrian Jan Marsalek in the UK had an agent in Austria , Austrian and German media reported, quoted by BGNES. The Vienna prosecutor's office is investigating a Bulgarian woman for espionage for the Russian..
According to the Bulgarian Embassy in Berlin, there is currently no information about Bulgarian citizens injured after the terrorist attack in the city of Magdeburg , in which a car rammed into a crowd at the city's Christmas market. The Embassy is in..
At the last moment, when the third expedition of Bulgaria's Antarctic research ship was supposed to leave for Antarctica in November, we received a letter that the money for the ship to return back has been redirected to grain producers. This meant that..
An avalanche has fallen in Pirin Mountain close to Bansko ski resort and has buried people . The Mountain Rescue Service has reported that one of the..
President Rumen Radev met in Sofia with the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban who is paying a visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of the Bulgarian..
On Saturday, a cold front will sweep across the country. During the night there will be rain in Western and Central Bulgaria, and snow in the..
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