Ahmed Musa Ahmed, who was arrested after a special operation in Pazardzhik earlier this week, dreamed of Bulgaria becoming the first EU country to hoist Islamic State (IS)'s black flag, the intelligence had has said.

Vladimir Pisanchev, Chairman of the State Agency for National Security (DANS), told reporters there are no IS jihadist cells in Bulgaria at the moment, but that "there could have been one".

No "direct financing" from IS had been established, Pisanchev admitted, adding Musa and the other group members were trying to show off to the Sunni militant organization.

Prosecutors charged on Wednesday Ahmed Musa Ahmed with membership of a group propagating war and anti-democratic ideology. Criminal charges were also brought against another six people detained in a large-scale operation conducted by the Chief Prosecutor's Office and the State Agency for National Security, or DANS, in several Bulgarian cities on Tuesday BNR radio station reported on Wednesday.

Ahmed is now thought to have been the leader of a group preaching the ideas of Islamic State and calling on Muslims to join its military offensive.

"We have witnesses, we also have calls for war," Deputy Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov said, adding Musa was propagating the idea of a "caliphate" which required the participation of every Muslim to happen.

IS declared this summer a "caliphate" in the territories in controls in both Iraq and Syria, which are straddling the common border.

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