A Bulgarian municipal councilor wanted on murder charges has been found in Turkey, case prosecutor Mihail Papazov said on Monday.

Sunai Remzi, 28, a municipal councilor on the ticket of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), is owner of two nightclubs in the town of Silistra.

He is accused of murdering business partner Marin Marinov, whose body was found last week at a night-club owned by Remzi. The body had a gun wound in the chest and a number of stabs.

Media reports claimed there were unsettled debts between the two partners.

Remzi has now been detained in Turkey, one day after Bulgarian prosecutors asked for an international arrest warrant from Interpol.

A man, claiming to be Remzi, called Bulgaria's public television last week, claiming he did not kill Marinov, but prosecutors said there was no way to ascertain the caller's identity.

MRF local party leaders initially disavowed Remzi, but did not kick the councilor out of the party, saying his membership would be reviewed after the police investigation is completed.

They later blamed the media, police and prosecutors for unnecessarily hyping the case.

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