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Bulgaria's Specialized Criminal Court released late on Monday two suspects allegedly involved in the shipment of 3 tons of cocaine on a Bulgarian ship that was busted in Spain last week.
The suspects are Doychin Doychev, owner of the Seaborne Trade company and the Saint Nikolay ship, and Ruslan Kolev, the man who recruited the ship's sailors.
The two were released without being subjected to any measure of restraint.
Kolev and Doychev have been charged with organizing, running and participating in an organized crime group connected to the Saint Nikolai ship caught with with three tons of cocaine on board in Spanish waters .
The magistrates ruled Monday that there was no evidence for the existence of an organized crime group after the investigating authorities failed to prove that the two defendants and the captain of the Saint Nikolai vessel had known each other.
On August 15, Spanish authorities nabbed 31 people, including 21 Bulgarians, after seizing 3 tons of cocaine brought from South America on a ship caught off the southern coast.
The operation codenamed Cartel was carried out jointly by GDBOP, the French police, the US DEA and the UK COKA.
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Customs officers at the “Kapitan Andreevo” checkpoint intercepted a truck carrying cocaine and gold bars valued at a combined total of 1,431,906.60 euros during a thorough inspection on February 22, 2026.
The fishing vessel that vanished from radar early Wednesday has been located, NOVA reported, citing its own sources. The boat, identified as VN 8112, was discovered on the seabed near Maslen Nos.
Teams of volunteers searching for the missing fishing vessel near Sozopol have discovered an oil spill in the sea at the point where the ship’s signal was last detected.
Bulgaria’s Maritime Administration has formally demanded that the owner of the oil tanker Kairos reimburse the state for all costs associated with the vessel’s removal from Bulgarian waters, totaling 270,371 euros
The Bulgarian naval research vessel "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" (NIK 421) has set sail from Varna Sea Station on its fourth voyage to Antarctica as part of Bulgaria’s 34th national Antarctic expedition
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.
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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
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