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…
A plan to boost European Union powers to curb the flow of dirty money through banks faced resistance at an EU meeting from member states recently hit by major money-laundering and financial fraud scandals, three officials told Reuters. The EU is discussing how to strengthen its scrutiny of the financial Read more…
A current and former member of Bulgaria’s Gambling Commission have been charged with involvement in an organised crime group allegedly headed by Vassil Bozhkov, it emerged on February 11 from an announcement by the Specialized Criminal Court. Plamen Georgiev was a member of the commission at the time that it Read more…
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on January 21 that it has pressed mismanagement charges against the former head of the State Intelligence Agency, Dragomir Dimitrov. Dimitrov, who is now Bulgaria’s general consul in Munich, is accused of failing to exercise his duties in overseeing implementation of the Classified Information Act between Read more…