A second person has been arrested at the Ministry of Youth and Sports in connection with the ongoing corruption scandal, the prosecutor’s office told the BNR. According to information the BNR has been given, the man arrested is weightlifting Olympic champion and current coach of Bulgaria’s national team Ivan Ivanov. His son, who is an expert at the ministry, was arrested in the process of receiving a bribe yesterday.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the President of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation Arif Majed was supposed to pay a bribe of 62,000 Leva that would provide 1.2 million Leva (EUR 614,000) for organizing the European championship next year and for ensuring further payments to the federation will not be discontinued.
In accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, President Rumen Radev will today hand over a mandate for forming a government to the candidate for Prime Minister, nominated by the largest parliamentary group in the 51st National..
The Department ''Economics of Natural Resources'' and the Scientific Research Center for Agrarian Business and Nature Use at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) are organizing a round table today on the topic "Market Access for..
The Legal Committee in Parliament has unanimously obliged the Supreme Judicial Council to suspend the election of Prosecutor General scheduled for January 16 with a single candidate - the current acting prosecutor Borislav Sarafov, after the entry..
The probability of forming a government is 50%. I said this before the New Year and I still think so today, as the percentages have not..
President Rumen Radev will hand over the first exploratory mandate to form a government on Wednesday January 15 at 12 noon, the head of state's press..
An analysis by experts from the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) shows that the cumulative growth of inflation (measured by..
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