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A Swiss and a Romanian citizen were amongst the people who were arrested. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency
Varna's anti-mafia police have discovered EUR 20 000 in false banknotes, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry reported Friday.
In a special operation on Thursday evening 6 people were arrested and the EUR 50 banknotes were confiscated to help with the investigation. The money was discovered in plastic bags in an apartment and an Audi car in Varna.
A Swiss and a Romanian citizen were amongst the people who were arrested.
The arrests come hot on the heals of a joint operation between Spanish and Bulgarian police that busted the European Union's largest ever euro forging operation in the Central Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.
Seventeen people were arrested in and around Plovdiv, where police seized EUR 500 000 in fake notes on July 2.
Bulgaria's interior minister has persisted with criticisms of the country's justice system, despite accusations from abroad that his statements erode confidence in the judiciary and threaten to undermine the magistrates' independence.
The body of a known criminal was discovered near Boyana Cinema in the Bulgarian capital Sofia Thursday evening.
The police busted Saturday a shop for the bottling of fake brand name liquor, located in the Sofia's "Knyazhevo" district.
Bulgarian police have seized 7000 bottles of what is alleged to be fake branded and out-of-date alcohol in a warehouse in the Southern Bulgarian town of Svilengrad.
Two of the players from one Bulgaria's top football teams CSKA Sofia have received knife wounds after a drunken row outside 'Sin City' nightclub at 3 am Saturday in Sofia.
Nearly 8 tons of alcohol has been seized from two private homes in South East Bulgaria's Karnobat, local police reported Thursday.
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.
A premeditated murder investigation is underway after a violent incident in the village of Kokalyane near Sofia, where a man is accused of fatally stabbing another person inside a garage that had been adapted for living
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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