Customs officers at the Lesovo border checkpoint have detained a man carrying 23,600 kg of cocaine in a car arriving from Turkey, BTA has reported. The value of the drug is over 1 million euros. The perpetrator is a 23-year-old Bulgarian, with criminal record.
Since the beginning of the year, customs officers have seized more than 120 kilograms of cocaine, about 150 kilograms of marijuana and nearly 100 kilograms of heroin, Svetoslav Vladimirov, director of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate General at the Customs Agency said.
The majority of Bulgarians do not vote, indicate data of the Central Election Commission on voter turnout in the country in the past 3 years. For example, at the election on 4 April, 2021 voter turnout was 50.61%, while three months later, on 11..
The administration of Sofia municipality is mulling raising the tourist tax which has remained unchanged for ten years. Raising the tax, collected from the visitors to the capital city every day, is connected with the intention by Sofia Mayor Vassil..
At the end of October, Bulgaria is to hold parliamentary elections for the second time in 2024, this time for the 51st National Assembly. Since the beginning of 2021, these is the seventh consecutive parliamentary elections and the sixth..
The mayor of the village of Samoranovo (Dupnitsa Municipality) has initiated an urgent fundraising campaign in connection with the fire in Rila..
Two people infected with West Nile Virus (WNV) in Bulgaria have died, the Ministry of Health has been confirmed for the BNR. Three persons in Bulgaria..
Diseases of the circulatory system are the major mortality factor in Bulgaria. The second group of causes are oncological diseases followed by..
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