Forty-three people have been detained in Sofia and six other towns in an operation by the specialized prosecutor’s office, the State Agency for National Security and the General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime.
The operation was against an organized crime group committing crimes connected with the financing of terrorism, though not with any terrorist threat on the territory of Bulgaria, said Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, commenting on the specialized operation against persons investigated for crimes against the state. It has been established that the chief organizer of the criminal activities is a Syrian national residing in Bulgaria. The people detained include two Bulgarian citizens as well as foreign nationals. Documents, 32,000 euro and other items have been seized.
Kiril Petkov announced at a briefing that he is taking political responsibility and resigning as co-chair of "We Continue the Change" (part of the PP-DB coalition, which has the second largest number of MPs in the National Assembly)..
A Japan-Bulgaria business forum on the topic of "Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization" was held in Sofia. "Bulgaria has a whole palette of advantages. However, they are little known in Japan. Our task is to provide much clearer..
During joint inspections by the National Revenue Agency, the Commission for Protection of Competition and the Commission for Consumer Protection, price increases of between 5 and 83% were found. The chair of the Commission for..
At the invitation of Jagiellonian University, one of the oldest universities in Europe, founded in 1364 , Vice President Iliana Yotova will be in Krakow,..
Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov has proposed the establishment of wartime command centres for state institutions . A draft decree from the Council of..
The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has issued a warning about a national strike in Belgium on 25 June 2025, organised by the trade unions...
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