The former head of the municipal company dealing with the capital Sofia parks and greenery Lyubomir Nikov along with other employees of the company have embezzled nearly BGN 635,000. This was revealed by a check into the work of the company that was orde
The Bulgarian Roma musician who was jailed for pimping last month is facing a new trial Monday. Kondyo, a former ethno-music celebrity on the local scene, was found guilty on pimping charges and sentenced to ten years in April.
A Sofia court has ruled in favour of journalist Bobi Tsankov on charges of fraud, launched by a business lady.
Police in the second-biggest town of Plovdiv has arrested a 22-year-old paedophile while he was posting pictures of sexually abused children on the Internet.
Ivo Markov, the Bulgarian businessman who was shot dead earlier in the week in downtown Sofia, is believed to be linked to the trafficking of cocaine to Spain, reports say. A week before Markov's murder three Bulgarians were arrested with 600 kilograms o
A Bulgarian woman who was wanted for committing a brutal murder was captured in Madrid, media reported. Six years ago Tanya Dimitrova had killed a woman from the northern Bulgarian village of Lilyache to rob her of a mobile phone and golden jewelry worth
Eight Bulgarians have been arrested in Spain for withdrawing more than EUR 2 M from illegally cloned credit cards. The gang operated in Madrid, several other Spanish cities and the Canary Islands.
An explosive device went off in the club of Attack (Ataka) in Varna, on the Black Sea coast.
A novelty in Bulgaria's Penal Procedure Code saw its first application on Thursday, as the court is to sentence a Bulgarian and an Iranian to less than five years in jail for kidnapping and robbing a Briton here.
A Turkish businessman was found dead, with a scissor stabbed into his throat, in the town of Dolna Banya, near Sofia. Police has confirmed the identity of the killed man - Iavuz Kaponoglu, a businessman from Turkey.
Sofia City Court did not approve prosecutors' demands for the dismissal of the deputy head of its State Agriculture Fund, over charges that he had taken a bribe. The prosecution says that Krassimir Nedelchev has taken a BGN 357,000 bribe.
A man, allegedly linked to SIC, a now defunct 1990s strong-arm structure, has been shot dead Wednesday night in downtown Sofia.
Bulgarian authorities have busted a total of thirty-eight prostitutes, who practiced in the areas of Plovdiv and Pazardzhik.
A brawl between two men in Sofia escalated to exchange of gunfire Wednesday. The two were having a heated argument outside a car service station, the police confirmed.
Killed Bulgarian mobster Ivan Todorov, dubbed Doktora, made hundreds of thousands from the cigarette-trafficking channel he was part of, media revealed. The smugglers' total turnover per year was between EUR 6 B and EUR 8 B, and Todorov's share was about
Delaware State Police are investigating a series of thefts involving skimming devices placed on automatic teller machines (ATMs) with clues leading to Bulgaria. The clients of the Wilmington Trust bank complained that large quantities of money being with
Bulgaria sacked Tuesday the deputy head of its State Agriculture Fund, over charges that he had taken a bribe. "We will not allow the future of Bulgarian agriculture in EU to be marred by such actions," Agriculture Minister Nihat Kabil.
An insider might have helped the robbers of a Bulgarian lottery van the past weekend. That is one of the three main versions for the attack, the police announced Tuesday.
The deputy head of Bulgaria's State Agriculture Fund has been accused of taking a bribe, media broke Tuesday. Krassimir Nedelchev was charged with pocketing about EUR 183 000.
A fifteen-year-old boy in Bulgaria attempted a suicide on Tuesday by jumping off the Asparuhov Bridge near Varna.
The student dormitory of the Technical University in Bulgaria's second city of Plovdiv caught fire late Monday night. The flames started from a third-floor room and three fire brigades immediately responded to the scene.
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