Bulgaria holds the greatest success rate in a drug-busting operation called "Containment V" carried out for a week in South-eastern European countries, the country's customs agency boasted. The country topped the list of narcotics seizure, dominating ove
Two teenagers from Germany and the United Kingdom started a fight at Bulgaria's seaside resort of Sunny Beach, media reported. The 19-year-old German was taken to the hospital with cuts to his hand after his altercation with a 18-year-old Brit, according
Sofia's City Court decided Thursday to freeze the property and bank accounts of an American citizen, who is suspected of taking part in a money-laundering scheme. The man, who is in Bulgaria temporarily,also holds citizenship with the United Kingdom.
Unidentified robbers have snatched EUR 30,000 from an ATM in Bulgaria's Pleven. The machine was installed outside a ban office, and the thieves most probably broke inside the building to reach the ATM case, the police believe.
Sofia police arrested Wednesday four youngsters, who had perpetrated a series of muggings in the capital's Lyulin district. The culprits, aged 17 to 21, pilfered at night when they waited for their victims in secluded areas near the subway station or one
Bulgaria's customs officers intercepted early Wednesday morning a Turkish truck carrying radioactive material, as the driver was attempting to cross the border with Romania at the Danube Bridge checkpoint at Russe.
Spain's National Police cracked on a gang of thirteen car robbers, some of them Bulgarian, local media reported. A total of 19 thieves, who were specialized in stealing luxurious vehicles from Spanish hotspots like Valencia, Alicante, Madrid and Costa de
Bulgarian policemen have arrested three men for offering child sex on the Internet, it was announced Tuesday. The detainees are suspected of taking young boys to parties and forcing them to drink alcohol before they are passed on to pedophiles for sex, r
A Bulgarian, who was driving while intoxicated, caused a car crash that killed his daughter and a friend, and endangered the life of his other child. The 32-year-old man smacked his Ford Transit van into a tractor that had broken down by the road.
From 10 to 15 per cent of the tourism in the Bulgarian Black Sea region of Burgas is financed by money laundering by criminal gangs, the Independent cites a local commissioner in an article regarding Bulgarian baby trade. The article describes Burgas as
Bulgaria is set to prolong once again the investigation into a the shocking murder of the Belneyska sisters, it emerged Monday. A request to give more time to investigators has been sent to chief prosecutor Boris Velchev, reports said.
Krassimir Marinov, the elderly of two notorious brothers, believed to be the most powerful underworld bosses in Bulgaria, suffers from discal hernia, haemorrhoids, colitis and sick kidneys, it emerged at a court session on Monday. Experts claimed in cour
A robbery put at high alert the police officers at Bulgaria's southern seaside resort of Sunny Beach, reports say. A total of EUR 9,150 were lifted from a hotel safe in the resort, hired by a newspaper and magazine distribution company.
Bulgaria's crime-fighting units are preparing a major raid against pirate Internet providers, media reported. Lists of illegal providers, who haven't paid license taxes and charge users half the usual rate for access to the World Wide Web, have been prep
Sofia City Court held Monday the third hearing of case of Bulgaria's notorious Marinov brothers, Krassimir and Nikolay, dubbed the Marguins, who were charged with masterminding three murders. At the last hearing defenders demanded for the prosecutor in t
A teenage boy from Bulgaria was announced for search by Maltese police, as the youngster was reported missing.
Three men from the Black Sea coast of Varna were arrested by Bulgarian police facing charges of pimping young girls. The three - aged between 30 and 38 - have organised a criminal ring trafficking for Germany young girls, who were forced to prostitute.
A Bulgarian man knifed himself in front of China's embassy in Sofia, because he was denied a meeting with the ambassador, media reported. The man stood before the embassy, loudly demanding for political asylum and claiming he had to meet with China's env
Bulgaria will extradite to Italy 12 Roma, arrested in May for child trafficking, the district court in the northern city of Pleven has decided. A total of 28 people have been arrested and have to appear before Italy's authorities, and the court will deci
A Dutchman was caught with 100,000 ecstasy pills as he tried to drive a lorry from Serbia into Bulgaria through the Kalotina checkpoint, media said Friday.
A 19-year-old man from Bulgaria's Sofia was arrested after trying to sell somebody else's apartment in the capital city. Two men were arrested in connection to the case.
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