An officer in the 6th police station in Sofia was detained yesterday with drugs in his car. At a briefing today, the Ministry of Interior reported that the policeman had been under surveillance for months. His arrest came after an..
After an operation in Shumen conducted by the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime, an indictment has been filed against a detainee for forging American and Bulgarian personal documents, the head of the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office,..
A Bulgarian prosecutor has been charged with abuse of official capacity. His name has not been announced by the specialized prosecutor's office. He is being investigated over the fact that on May 29, 2018, when he headed the..
A steady decline in crime rate since 2010 is seen in the results of an analysis of data from a national crime survey prepared by the Center for the Study of Democracy and presented in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio. Because of the fact..
Sofia police have found that drug dealers are increasingly recruiting students who sell drugs inside the schools and there are almost no dealers around the buildings. The most widely sold drugs in Sofia schools are amphetamines and marijuana. Often..
Following a signal of extortion, an organized criminal group has been detained. It had been operating at the highest levels in the fight against drug trafficking since the beginning of 2017, the spokesperson of the Chief Prosecutor, Siika Mileva,..
After yesterday’s police operation in Sofia against a criminal group, Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev, said at a press conference today that three people had been charged over beating journalist Slavi Angelov last month. The major version of..
The Prosecutor's Office in Sofia has reported that police and judicial authorities in Germany, Austria, Serbia and Bulgaria have jointly neutralized an international organized crime group involved in fraudulent trading in financial instruments,..
Bulgaria’s government is to create a national mechanism for monitoring of the fight against corruption, organized crime, judicial reform and rule of law. The measure is under the recommendation of the European Commission within the frameworks of the..
20 people have been detained in a specialized police operation against drug trafficking, which took place in Bourgas and Sofia. The operation was conducted by the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime and the prosecutor's office in Bourgas..
