Bulgaria's security agencies are investigating an scheme for trafficking of illegal immigrants from Turkey to Bulgaria, reports Sega daily.

It is believed that in it are involved Bulgarian border police officers and that the fence at the Bulgarian-Turkish border, which cost millions and was completed only recently, is totally inefficient.

According to the investigation, the scheme has picked up speed in the last two months and the “service” of taking illegal immigrants across the borders all the way to Serbia costs EUR 2000 per person.

Those who cannot pay the full sum, are left in Bulgaria.

“We had cases of immigrants dropped off straight at the doors of the immigration camps,” a source from the Refugee Agency told Sega. “But in the last few months it is getting quite common.”

Only last Saturday and Sunday the Sofia police apprehended around 100 illegal immigrants in large groups in several spots in the city suburbs.

Meanwhile, the head of the Migration Directorate Yotko Andreev told the bTV national channel that the National Security Agency (DANS) established only 20 dangerous immigrants. He, however, could not say over what period, but added that none of them was connected to the Islamic State (IS).

Andreev also said that he was expecting increasing numbers of illegal immigrants to arrive in Bulgaria.

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