heroin worth about BGN 32 million, Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev posted news on Twitter. Acclaims for the good work of the colleagues from
Varna regional Prosecutor’s Office, General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (
GDBOP) and Customs Agency, who again protected our children. Bulgaria shows that it is a strong barrier against drug trafficking , wrote Geshev.
On this occasion, the Appellate Prosecutor of
Varna – Vladimir Chavdarov will give a briefing. It will be attended by Deputy District Prosecutor of
Varna Diana Ivanova, representatives of the Customs Agency and the Combat against Organized Crime Directorate – Varna.
Details of the case were released after a special briefing by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Praise has come in for the banning of the “Lukov March” in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, an event held in tribute to a pro-Nazi Bulgarian general who led the fascist Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s up till his assassination in the 1940s.
First held in Sofia in 2003, the Lukov March annually has drawn neo-Nazis from elsewhere in Europe to Bulgaria’s capital to join in a torchlight procession in honour of Lukov, whom local extremists falsely seek to portray as a patriotic hero.
Successfully banned in 2020, the February 13 2021 event again was the subject of a banning order by Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova. Police prevented a large-scale procession going ahead, though wreaths were laid outside Lukov’s house in central Sofia.
Bulgaria Condemned For Refusal To Probe Journalist s Violent Arrest
February 11, 2021 14:15 GMT
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling for an independent and transparent investigation into the beating of Bulgarian freelance journalist Dimitar Kenarov while in police custody in September 2020.
“We condemn the Sofia police’s refusal to reexamine this journalist’s arbitrary and violent arrest, and the absurd and dystopian narrative, worthy of George Orwell, being used by the authorities,” Pavol Szalai, the head of the Paris-based media freedom watchdog’s European Union and Balkans desk, said in a statement on February 11.
Szalai said a new independent investigation is needed to “establish the facts and to ensure that the authorities do not tolerate such behavior towards journalists covering demonstrations.”
in a press release on Friday that it had declared a diplomat
posted at the Russian Embassy in Sofia persona non grata and had
given him 72 hours to leave Bulgaria in connection with
activities incompatible with his diplomatic status. A note to
this effect was served on the deputy chief of mission, who was
summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Sofia.
The diplomat concerned has been identified by the Russian
Embassy as the Russian Military, Air and Naval Attache, who is
named on the Embassy s website and in the Bulgarian Foreign
Ministry s Diplomatic List as Colonel Vasily V. Sazanovich.
The step was taken after Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev notified
Office (SPO) has not found any evidence suggesting the
commission of a criminal offence in an investigation of a
conversation allegedly involving Prime Minister Boyko Borissov,
the prosecution service said in a press release on Friday. An
audio recording of that conversation was leaked to media outlets
on June 12, 2020.
sufficient grounds for a reasonable assumption that the alleged
act satisfied the substantive elements constituting a publicly
prosecutable offence. The prosecutor therefore issued a warrant
refusing to institute pre-trial proceedings.
The Specialized Prosecution Office (SPO) instituted a case file,
acting on alerts submitted by Yes Bulgaria Party Chair Hristo
Ivanov citing allegations circulated in the media, based on