The European Public Prosecutor's Office is conducting 143 investigations in Bulgaria into suspected fraud against the EU budget worth nearly €500 million.
According to the institution's 2022 report, assets worth €6.5 million were seized and one charge was brought. 11 cases have been closed without consequences.
The largest number of investigations are for fraud with funds not related to public procurement. Public procurement investigations came next, followed by investigations into alleged corruption. The most frequently investigated offences relate to agriculture, regional development and other EU programmes.
The legal trial of the deaths of 18 refugees who died of suffocation in a truck found near the Sofia village of Lokorsko in February 2023 cannot begin . The reason is the lack of a response from the embassy in Afghanistan. It is not clear when the trial..
The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), which is part of Sofia University, will be a co-organizer of the Physics-IQ Challenge competition, the university announced. The competition will be part of the..
US investors are in Sofia this week for talks with Bulgarian authorities on the expansion of the Chiren gas storage facility in northwestern Bulgaria - a project that could become a new battleground between supporters and opponents of Russian natural gas..
Job offers in all sectors of the Bulgarian economy are decreasing in July, according to the analysis of a leading online job posting platform in the..
Amendments to Bulgaria’s Road Traffic Law, published in today's issue of the State Gazette, will come into force in one month. From 5 September,..
A dead Egyptian vulture was found near the village of Hrastovo in Krumovgrad municipality , the press center of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry..
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