Bulgarian customs officers seized a record amount of cocaine at the port of Burgas. The drug is nearly 170 kg. It was hidden in refrigerated container.
Bulgaria denies consent to liberalized licensing of imports of Ukrainian sunflower seeds interfax.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from interfax.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Three Bulgarian companies have been importing phosphates from the Syrian Arab Republic, whose president Bashar Assad and his ministry of oil have been under US sanctions since 2011 and under EU sanctions since 2012. This is revealed by an international investigation by journalists from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Syrian Investigative Reporting…
Russia's energy giant LUKoil appears to have a thriving business in Bulgaria, generating millions of dollars in refining revenue. But the company has paid little if any tax over the years using an accounting trick. Bulgarian politicians are largely looking the other way.
The
caretaker government continues with the staff reshuffle in the revenue agencies - Georgi Kostov was removed today from the management of the Customs Agency.This was announced by the Minister of Finance Assen Vassilev at a briefing, as quoted by bTV. There is a report from OLAF about serious damage inflicted to the European budget. According this report, by almost all criteria, the Bulgarian
Customs Agency does not meet the required standards. Colleagues in the customs took relevant measures, but despite that OLAF sent us a letter of warning concerning 55 million euros, which
Bulgaria needs to restore to the EU budget.