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Charges pressed against 8 people in special operation in Ruse: Rumiana Arnaudova

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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.




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