Pavel Marinov, head of the Migration Department at the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior in Razgrad, was arrested in connection with a corruption investigation, the Ministry of the Interior has reported.
During an operation by the "Internal Security" Directorate at the Ministry of Interior and the Prosecutor's Office, two more persons complicit in the committed crime were detained, as well as two women who provided translation services. According to investigators, the case is about a criminal scheme in which two persons mediated the recruitment of candidates for obtaining a type D visa, giving the right to long-term residence in Bulgaria.
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus 7 and minus 2°C, reaching minus 10°C in the valleys and around minus 9°C in Sofia. Tomorrow will be..
The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07 following an inspection by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. In addition to the repairs made to improve..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would lift its veto and that Bulgaria and Romania would probably become full members of Schengen from the..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
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