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Bulgarian Drug Lord Sentenced to 7.5 Years behind Bars
The Sofia City Court sentenced notorious Bulgarian drug lord Evelin Banev aka Brendo to 7.5 years in prison on Friday. Prosecutors had demanded a 12 year-sentence for Brendo, who was charged with...
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A prosecutor from major Bulgarian city of Burgas has been detained, according to media reports Friday. The arrest of prosecutor Angel Georgiev was carried out by plain clothes police in a central...
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Anti-Mafia Court Rules BGN 50 000 Bail for Bulgaria's Sugar VAT Fraud Boss
A bail of BGN 50 000 (some EUR 25 500) has been determined by Bulgaria's special anti-mafia court for the release of Stayko Staykov who is believed to be in charge of a large-scale sugar trade VAT...
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Bulgarian Court OKs Fraudster's Deportation to USA
The Varna Appellate Court has allowed the deportation of Galin Filev, an alleged Bulgarian fraudster wanted in the USA. On Friday, the Varna Appellate Court confirmed a ruling of the Dobrich District...
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Dutch Man Caught Smuggling Gold Bars at Bulgarian Border Crossing
A Dutch man has been detained by Bulgarian Customs officers at the Bulgarian-Serbian border crossing Kalotina trying to smuggle two gold bars. Another Dutch man accompanying the first one was caught...
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Hezbollah Leader: Bulgaria's Probe into Bus Bombing Is Closely Followed
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has rejected claims that the implication of the Shiite group in the Burgas bus bombing in July 2012 would trigger an Israeli attack on Lebanon. In a televised...
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Cyprus Court Clears Bulgarian Pilot on Plane Crash
The prosecuting authority in Nicosia has withdrawn charges against Bulgarian pilot Yanko Stoimenov in connection with a plane crash of Cypriot airline Helios. On August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737-300...
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Fog Thickens around Bulgarian PM Assassination Plot
The Director of Bulgaria's National Intelligence Services, NIS, Dragomir Draganov, denied he has information ethnic Turkish leader, Ahmed Dogan, had plotted an attack on the life of outgoing Prime...
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Dozen Serious Threats Registered against Bulgarian PM
The serious threats on the life of outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, amount to nearly a dozen. The news was reported Friday by the Bulgarian Trud (Labor) daily in the aftermath of...
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Sofia Police Arrest 30 in Rally Aftermath
Thirty people have been detained in the Bulgarian capital Sofia after the official conclusion of the mass protest rally held Sunday. Thousands took on the streets in Sofia and across Bulgaria,...
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Sofia Palace of Justice Closed over Yet Another Bomb Threat
Bulgarian capital Sofia's Palace of Justice, home of various judicial institutions and organizations, was closed early on Tuesday after an anonymous bomb alert. The call claiming that a bomb has been...
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EVN Building in Bulgaria's Plovdiv Set on Fire during Protests
The office building of Austrian-owned power utility EVN in Bulgaria's Plovdiv was set on fire Monday night, the local police reported. Tuesday. Unknown persons are believed to have started a fire on...
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15 Youth Arrested for Hooliganism during Latest Protests in Sofia
The police in Bulgaria's capital Sofia have detained 15 youth, including 6 underage teens, on hooliganism charges during Monday night's protests against monopoly power utilities and the already...
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Romanian Women Caught Smuggling Gold in Underwear on Bulgaria-Turkey Border
Customs officers from Bulgaria's Kapital Andreevo border crossing point have caught two Romanian women smuggling gold in their underwear. The two women from the Romanian town of Satu Mare were...
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Sofia Police Detain Drunk Man Waving Gas Pistol in front of President's Office
Police have detained a young man carrying a pistol and a knife in front of the President's Office in downtown Sofia. Tihomir Dobrev, 29, was arrested Tuesday in front of the President's Office with a...
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Court Upholds Sentences of Roma Who Ran over People in Bulgaria's Katunitsa
The Plovdiv Appellate Court has upheld the sentences of Spas Hristov and Georgi Yordanov, ethnic Roma who ran over ethnic Bulgarians during tensions in the village of Katunitsa in September 2011....
View Article2 Bulgarians Sentenced for Stealing Fuel in Malta
Two Bulgarian nationals have been sentenced to an 18-month jail term, suspended for three years, for stealing fuel. Stefan Mitkov Parasakov, 27, and Mihail Nedkov Nikolov 28, both from Sliema, who...
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Tenerife Behead Maniac Sentenced to 20 Years in Psychiatric Unit
Bulgarian national Deyan Deyanov, who committed the shocking murder of 60-year-old Jennifer Mills-Westley in Tenerife back in 2011, has been sentenced to 20 years in a psychiatric unit. Deyanov's...
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Trial in College Student Murder Re-launched in Bulgaria
The Sofia City Court is holding Friday the first session in the renewed trial for the murder of Stoyan Baltov in Sofia's now-infamous Studentski Grad (College Town) district. 20-year-old pharmacy...
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Security Guards Shoot Dead Roma Scrap Thief in Sofia
A teenager of Roma origin who was trying to steal scrap metal has een shot dead in the Bulgarian capital Sofia by a security guard. The 16-year-old Kamen Asenov and a friend of his broke into the...
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