Bulgarian citizens have been arrested in an international operation against a criminal group that took part in money laundering of millions of euros stolen by hackers. The operation was conducted under the guidance of Europol and was led by the Portuguese police and the FBI, the AP reported, citing the Read more…
United States Defence Secretary Mark Esper and Bulgarian Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov signed a 10-year road map charting defence co-operation between the two countries over the next decade, the US Department of Defence said in an October 6 statement. Bulgaria and the United States are Nato allies, and Esper praised Read more…
Six US F-16 fighter jets are participating in a joint mission with Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29s to protect Bulgaria’s air space from September 26 until October 30, Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry said. The F-16s are temporarily based at Graf Ignatiev Air Force Base, having arrived on September 18 and having taken Read more…
Commenting on September 24 on Bulgaria’s latest expulsion of Russian diplomats identified by the State Agency for National Security and prosecutors as spies, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that he had warned Russian President Vladimir Putin a few years “that I do not allow such things on the territory of Read more…
The Bulgarian Navy has taken delivery of two second-hand minesweepers bought from the Netherlands, the Ministry of Defence said. The vessels have been deployed at the naval station in Varna on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. The contract for the purchase and delivery, worth about two million euro, was signed in Read more…
Covid-19’s disruption to drug use and the market could have long-term implications for Europe’s drug services and law enforcement agencies, according to a report released on September 22 by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). There are fears that innovative drug distribution models developed during lockdown, Read more…
The Court of Appeal in Varna on September 14 sentenced the Member of Parliament and leader of the right-wing Volya party, Veselin Mareshki, to four years in prison for extortion and blackmail. He was found guilty of seeking 10,000 lev (5,116 euros) in rent from businessman Asen Milanov for Read more…
At the conclusion of a trial in absentia, a five-member panel of Bulgaria’s Special Criminal Court has found Meliad Farah and Hassan El Hajj Hassan guilty in connection with the July 2012 terrorist attack on Israeli tourists at Bourgas Airport and sentenced the two to life in prison with no Read more…
The European Commission said that on September 18 it had made available an additional 23.8 million euro to Greece, under the Internal Security Fund, to support border management. This top up will support the deployment of border guards to improve border surveillance, address the need to enhance the reception and identification Read more…
A five-member panel of Bulgaria’s Special Criminal Court will deliver its verdict on September 21 in the trial in absentia of two accused in connection with the July 18 2012 terrorist attack at Bourgas Airport in which five Israeli tourists, a Bulgarian bus driver and the bearer of a bomb Read more…