Bulgarian-Headed Intl Crime Gang Crushed

Crime | April 26, 2006, Wednesday // 00:00

An international crime group, headed by a Bulgarian national, dealing with drugs and arms traffic in several European countries has been crushed.

The news was broken by Bulgaria's Interior Minister Rumen Petkov, who also explained that the gang consisted of nine people working in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Greece.

The crime gang dealt with traffic in arms, drugs and cigarettes on a worldwide scale, Petkov explained. He added that the cigarettes were exported from Greece through the Netherlands to the UK.

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