The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) with the Council of Europe on Thursday published a report in which it urges Bulgaria to improve access to justice and compensation for victims of human trafficking. This is the third report on the implementation by Bulgaria of the Convention on Action against Trafficking Read more…
The prosecutor’s office compared four cases of blasts in ammunition depots in Bulgaria where similarity in incidents was noted. They’ve happened in the last 10 years, spokesperson of the Prosecutor General, Siyka Mileva, told a briefing on Wednesday. The first incident is from November 12, 2011 – explosion in a warehouse of Read more…
A second incident involving a cash-in-transit van has occurred in Bulgaria within two days. After robbers snatched about half a million levs from a cash delivery van on the Struma Motorway on Wednesday, police caught 13 illegal migrants being transported in a van disguised as a cash delivery car. The difference, however, is that Read more…
MPs of the Democratic Bulgaria coalition have asked Prime Minister Boyko Borissov if Bulgarian special services have intelligence on whether foreign special services were involved in explosions in military factories in Bulgaria in the last 10 years. The question was provoked by revelations of the Czech authorities that agents of Read more…
The BBC has been lively commenting on the Bulgarian trace in the explosion of ammunition depots in the Czech Republic in 2014. The media reported that one of the people who stored in Vrbetica ammunitions that were meant for Ukraine was the Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev, who six months after the explosion Read more…
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says the United States should deploy more troops along the Black Sea in Bulgaria and Romania to deter potential aggression from Russia as tensions between Moscow and Washington heat up. Esper, now a fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University, said “I think we need Read more…