The District Prosecutor’s Office- Plovdiv and Home Security Directorate of the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior have detained 7 Police officers from the 3rd Regional Police Station in Plovdiv. The police station’s head Samuil Hadzhiev and five civilians have been also arrested during the operation. We have been preparing the operation in the past six month, announced Rumen Popov, District prosecutor of Plovdiv. The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating corrupt practices, prostitution, malfeasance and other crimes, informed the correspondent of the BNR in Plovdiv Kremena Daneva.
Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Interior Boyko Rashkov said in Plovdiv that he had dismissed Chief Commissioner Georgi Hadzhiev, Head of the Sofia Metropolitan Directorate of Interior. Prosecutors in Plovdiv have launched pretrial proceeding for vote buying as well, added Minister Rashkov.
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their support,” Ivelin Mihaylov, one of the founders of Velichie party said for the BNR. GERB-SDS..
In an analysis of the pension system in Bulgaria, the International Monetary Fund urges the country to raise pensions by raising social security contributions and doing away with the maximum insurable earnings. According to the analysis, pensions in..
Bulgarian tour operators and travel agents are hoping the new parliament will reconsider the decision to revert to the higher VAT (20%) for the industry as of 1 July. They are insisting that tourist packages be subject to 9% VAT until the end of..
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their..
The first joint operation of the newly formed Mine Counter Measures Task Group Black Sea involving Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania is to take place July..
On Tuesday the weather will be sunny and hot over most of the country. Clouds will form over Western and Central Bulgaria in the afternoon and there..
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