Nine customs officers have been detained at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey on suspicion of involvement in corruption schemes for smuggling migrants across the border.
“Searches are underway in four towns in the region of Haskovo in Southern Bulgaria and more arrests are forthcoming,” said Rumyana Arnaudova, spokesperson for the prosecutor-general. The operation is being conducted by the Anti-corruption task force and examining magistrates from the Sofia City Prosecutors’ Office with the support of the Interior Ministry Internal Affairs department.
Overnight, from west to east, the rain showers will stop and the clouds will break up and decrease. Thursday will be sunny in western and central Bulgaria . Visibility will be temporarily reduced and in the morning hours there will be low clouds in..
The Supreme Administrative Court has overturned as unlawful the Central Election Commission's refusal to register the Movement for Rights and Freedoms - New Beginning coalition (one of the two factions of the DPS) for the 27 October parliamentary..
The Commission for Consumer Protection has ordered the immediate withdrawal from the market of two products known as energy sniff, which are inhaled through the nose and are an alternative to energy drinks. The products have been identified as a serious..
Acting chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Atanas Zafirov has withdrawn the papers submitted yesterday for the BSP’s independent..
Bulgaria ranks second in the world in terms of bread consumption after Turkiey, reported BNT citing the Turkish news site Yenigün. According to the..
Cases of pertussis (whooping cough) are now few, while the number of scarlet fever and chickenpox cases has been reduced to a..
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