Today, the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice is expected to send to the UAE a request for extradition of businessman Vasil Bozhkov, who has been charged with leading a criminal group, extortion, attempted bribery of an official, incitement to criminal offenses, trading in influence, illegal appropriation of cultural and historical objects of value.
According to unconfirmed information, Bozhkov was released from the Abu Dhabi Detention Center on Sunday and is already in Dubai. Bulgarian Ambassador to Abu Dhabi has urgently asked authorities whether the information on the release of the businessman is correct, the Foreign Ministry has reported.
Several European liberal parties have sent a letter to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) to demand that Delyan Peevski be monitored, pointing out that he has been sanctioned for corruption by the US under the Global Magnitsky..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern flank. “Today my Bulgarian and Romanian counterparts, Mr. Atanas Zaprianov and Mr. Angel..
The parliamentary group of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) has excluded 17 MPs. Among them is the co-chairman Dzhevdet Chakarov. The decision was read in the plenary hall by the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly,..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in..
President Rumen Radev is to hand the second governing-forming mandate next week. ''I expect We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) to..
13 bands from abroad will perform on the big stage of the 4 th edition of Midalidare - Rock in the Wine Valley , 12-14 July, alongside the..
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