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 regional governor of Plovdiv, Prof. Hristina Yancheva, announced a partial state of emergency in Hisarya and Kaloyanovo, BTA has reported. The measure was introduced because of the fires in the area of the villages of Pesnopoi and Mihiltsi near..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in Brussels reports. The money is being granted to alleviate part of the expenses of the companies which..
Army personnel and two helicopters from the 24 th air base at Krumovo have joined the efforts to extinguish a big fire in Mount Sredna Gora close to Pesnopoy village, Kaloyanovo municipality and Mihiltsi village, Hisarya municipality. The..
The largest archaeological campaign ever conducted on Perperikon has begun, BTA reports. Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov, head of the research at..
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern..
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