A huge amount of drugs was seized – nearly 400 kg of heroin worth about BGN 32 million, Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev posted news on Twitter. “Acclaims for the good work of the colleagues from Varna regional Prosecutor’s Office, General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime and Customs Agency, who again protected our children. Read more…
An international organized crime group for heroin trafficking has been neutralized with the assistance of DEA officers, reported the press center of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office. DEA is a US drug enforcement administration. Its officers are looking for effective solutions to crack down on drugs and drug trafficking not only in the Read more…
Four people have been arrested for drug trafficking in Plovdiv. This was announced at a briefing of the Regional Prosecutor‘s Office in the city, Nova TV reported. Thanks to the police operation the, a drug smuggling network from Western Europe to Turkey was broken up: 115 kg of ecstasy worth BGN 3.5 Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 prosecutors call Vasil Bozhkov the nation’s most dangerous man. Now the fugitive gambling tycoon is planning to return home to exonerate himself by toppling the government. Once ranked among eastern Europe’s richest people, the 63-year-old has been in a self-imposed exile in Dubai since January. He’s awaiting a decision Read more…
Bulgaria’s Deputy Environment Minister Krassimir Zhivkov was one of six people taken into 24-hour custody on May 28 following high-profile raids by prosecutors and police in Sofia and several other cities against an alleged organised crime group. Zhivkov, as well as the former head of the regional inspectorate of environment Read more…