About 20 people were detained during a specialized operation near Sofia. The arrests were made on the Northern Speed Tangent. The operation was about migrant trafficking. It was attended by employees of the Regional Directorate of Border Police in the city of Ihtiman and the Capital Directorate of Interior. / Read more…
US and Russian officials have begun space security talks in Vienna, after the United States and the United Kingdom accused Russia of having launched an anti-satellite weapon last week. Monday’s one-day dialogue, which had been planned for months, will be followed by three days of nuclear arms control talks between Read more…
The Bulgarian army has reached the highest level of confidence in a decade, according to a Gallup International survey. Out of all state institutions the army has the highest approval rating – 53%. The approval rating of the police is 49%, disapproval stands at 40%. The church is keeping a Read more…
Two operations with the participation of heavily armed commandos and prosecutors from the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office are being held in Sofia. Heavily armed police teams, the Prosecutor General’s Office’s Witness Protection Bureau and prosecutors from the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office entered a house in the Simeonovo neighborhood, where a former police officer Read more…
Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office said on July 2 that a citizen that it alleged had travelled several times to Syria and taken part in armed actions by jihadist groups had been charged under the Penal Code with participation in terrorist crimes abroad. “It has been established that the person’s father is Read more…
Head of Bulgaria’s anti-drug trafficking unit was arrested for accepting bribes He has been detained along with two other high-ranking drug officers Took bribes from local and international drug rings in exchange for protection Bulgarian police have arrested the head of the anti-drug trafficking unit and two other officers for Read more…
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on June 22 that he has vetoed part of the bill of amendments to the Interior Ministry Act, specifically the provisions that would task a new ministry department with protection of senior state officials. Radev argued that the provisions he vetoed would “duplicate the protection Read more…
The President’s secretary on legal affairs and anti-corruption Plamen Uzunov is investigated for trading in influence. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, on December 28, 2018, he sent a court decision, which had not yet been signed by the judges of the Supreme Administrative Court to the businessman Plamen Bobokov, recently charged Read more…
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter began its northbound international strait transit en route to the Black Sea on June 17, to conduct maritime security operations and enhance regional maritime stability, combined readiness, and naval capability with US Nato allies and partners in the region, the US Navy said. Read more…
The Commission for Combating Corruption and Confiscation of Illegally Acquired Property filed a complaint with the Minister of Education and Science Krassimir Valchev, the Commission announced. The proceedings for conflict of interest were initiated on the basis of media publications of 12 and 14 June 2020. They contain allegations concerning Read more…