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Bulgaria's Interior Minister announces that several of his officials are under investigation for possible links with the 'Octopus' criminal gang. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian Interior Ministry officials are under investigation for possible links with the "Octopus" group.
Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the Interior minister has announced on Tuesday that there are already several people within his ministry who are being checked out by operational services.
The Minister declined to comment on whether Nikola Filchev, the former chief prosecutor, was associated with the group.
"I'm not mistaken regarding Alexei Petrov; everything I have said is with my clear awareness of the information I’ve been given," the Minister commented, adding that Alexei Petrov owed the treasury BGN 1,5 M in unpaid tax, which showed he had not been working for the good of the country.
He further said that the top 300 gangsters in the country are reducing in number as a result of an operation on Monday night, carried out in Gabrovo, where a group was arrested on suspicion of having siphoned away over BGN 2 M in Value Added Tax.
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