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Bulgaria DPS Party Town Councilor Sentenced as Pimp
Crime | November 7, 2009, Saturday // 11:53
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A DPS party council at the town of Sandanski has been sentenced as a pimp.
Ventsislav Ivanov, a municipal council in the southwest Bulgarian town of Sandanski, has been sentenced for procuring.
Ivanov who is from the ethnic Turkish party DPS has received 1 year in jail. He also got another six months on a separate charge for a theft.
The sentenced can be appealed in the District Court in Blagoevgrad within 15 days.
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