Officers of Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS) seized 350 000 fake ballots from a printing house in the western town of Kostinbrod one day ahead of the May 12 parliamentary elections.
The operation was conducted Friday night at the Kostinbrod-based printing house near Sofia, according to reports of Sega daily and the BGNES news agency.
The printing facility is owned by the Multiprint company of Yordan Bonchev, municipal councilor in Kostinbrod from center-right party GERB, who is also said to be an ally of former Interior Minister and Deputy Chair of GERB Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
The authorities seized 350 000 illegal ballots.
Bulgarians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new Parliament.
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