Bulgaria: Varna Police Chief Fired Amid Outrage Over Yavor Georgiev’s Death, GERB Turns on Their Own Minister
Bulgarian Interior Minister Daniel Mitov has removed Senior Commissioner Andrey Angelov from his post as head of Varna’s police
Bulgarian customs officers have found about 73 kg of heroin in a Romanian microbus at the Lesovo Border Crossing Point on the Turkish border.
The Romanian driver of the microbus tried to enter Bulgaria from Turkey Saturday morning with 142 packages of heroin hidden in secret compartments of the car, the Regional Police Directorate in the city of Yambol announced.
The value of the found heroin on the Bulgarian market would be about BGN 5 M, according to police sources.
At a separate occasion at the Kapitan Adreevo Border Crossing Point, again on the Bulgaria-Turkey border, customs officers found about 24,5 kg of heroin hidden in a passenger bus traveling from Turkey's Istanbul to the southern Bulgarian cities of Haskovo and Kardzhali.
Tension gripped the Bulgarian city of Varna on Tuesday evening following the death of 36-year-old Yavor Georgiev
A total of 130 people are being removed from three illegal adult care facilities in Varna following an operation carried out Monday night - the third such action in recent weeks
Customs authorities at Bulgaria’s Kapitan Andreevo border crossing have intercepted two significant attempts to smuggle undeclared currency, with a total value approaching 2.8 million leva
Another case of an illegal care home has come to light in Bulgaria
A sixth person has been detained for 24 hours in connection with the case of the illegal nursing homes in the Bulgarian village of Yagoda, near Stara Zagora
A 35-year-old woman was beaten to death late last night in the Bulgarian seaside town of Sozopo
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