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A group of racketeers have been arrested in Sofia in an ongoing joint operation of the Sofia Directorate of the Interior Ministry and the Chief Directorate “Criminal Police.”
Police have so far arrested 6 people aged 30-35, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio.
According to sources close to the matter, the racketeers were exceptionally brutal towards their victims.
The police operation is being conducted in Sofia’s residential districts of Druzhba and Slatina.
The detainees are believed to have been involved in racketeering and extortion.
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