More Arrests in Bulgaria Targeting Vote-Buying Before the April Elections
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Bulgarian police managed to salvage a large number of antique coins from being sold illegally online. File photo
Employees of Bulgaria's Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, GDBOP, seized Monday hundreds of precious coins in an operation against illegal trade of historical valuables.
The probe, preceding the operation, and the operation were conducted in the regions of Ruse, Veliko Tarnovo, and Plovdiv.
The investigators began the probe on information that cultural and historical valuables were being offered for sale through an internet site.
The authorities have raided 6 addresses and one store in the Danube city of Ruse, used by two men, 24 and 28, and seized 8 gold antique and medieval coins, 5 computers and cell phones.
Their colleagues in the second largest city of Plovdiv seized 119 antique coins and computers. The raid in the central city of Veliko Tarnovo ended with the confiscation of one computer.
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