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The Center for the Study of Democracy estimates that about half million crimes go unreported in Bulgaria each year. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency
The number of criminal acts in Bulgaria is going to increase drastically over the next several months, a report of the Center for the Study of Democracy reveals.
According to the study, the global financial crisis will trigger the new crime wave, because the most at risk groups - the unemployed and those living on welfare are yet to become actively involved in criminal acts.
According to official Interior Ministry data, Bulgaria has seen 113 340 crimes in 2008, 5% less than 2007. The data registers 161 murders and 60 murder attempts for 2008.
The report of the Center for the Study of Democracy reveals that there is a huge number of crimes that do not enter the official statistics - an estimated 190 000 for 2008 while in another 330 000 instances, the Bulgarian citizens did not seek the assistance of the authorities.
The Interior Ministry's Chief Commissar, Pavlin Dimitrov, admitted that there could be half a million of unreported crimes in the country.
Interim Interior Minister Emil Dechev said that the rising number of detected election-related crimes is linked to a growing willingness among citizens to report suspected violations
Bulgarian authorities carried out a targeted operation in Burgas to combat election-related crimes, resulting in six people being detained. Three of the cases led to pre-trial proceedings, while the other three were documented in official files.
The Ministry of Interior has announced the dismissal of several top officials, including the heads of the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, the General Directorate for National Police, and the General Directorate for Gendarmerie, Special
Seven individuals, among them three serving police officers, have been formally charged for involvement in an organized crime group linked to arson, bribery and narcotics trafficking in Sofia and the Lovech region
The United States Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) on Friday (December 5) concluded a two-day workshop
A 15-year-old boy of Roma origin, identified as Krasimir Nadezhdov Tsvetanov, was killed in a violent altercation at a Sofia shopping mall on Sunday evening
A young man from Chirpan has died after spending months in a coma following a violent assault that reportedly began over a dispute involving cigarettes
A 53-year-old man with a criminal record has been detained in Bulgaria during a targeted police operation against vote buying, carried out in the village of Brestnitsa in the Lovech region
A criminal network linked to Bulgaria has been accused of defrauding dozens of elderly people in northern Greece through an elaborate telephone scam that resulted in losses exceeding 600,000 euros, according to Kathimerini.
A premeditated murder investigation is underway after a violent incident in the village of Kokalyane near Sofia, where a man is accused of fatally stabbing another person inside a garage that had been adapted for living
Italian authorities have launched an investigation into a large-scale scheme involving the illegal export of hazardous waste to Eastern Europe, with five Bulgarian nationals among those under scrutiny
Authorities in Bulgaria report a significant escalation in efforts to combat election-related violations, with 183 individuals detained in connection with crimes against electoral rights
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