Bulgarian Politics: Trial of Kiril Petkov Set to Begin on June 10 with Witness Testimonies
The trial against former Prime Minister and "We Continue the Change" co-leader Kiril Petkov will officially begin on June 10, with the hearing of witnesses
Nikolay Marinov aka the Little Marguin, who is still missing, will be tried in his absence. Photo by BGNES
The Sofia City Court announced Friday that the trial of Krasimir and Nikolay Marinov, aka The Marguin Brothers, will continue on March 16
The Marguin Brothers together with Veselin Toshev, Stefan Rangelov, Ivo Karageorgiev, and Biser Iliev are charged with plotting the murders of controversial radio host Bobi Tsankov, Nikola Damyanov, and Ivan Todorov, aka The Doctor (a large-scale mafia boss specialized at international cigarettes contraband), and of General Lyuben Gotsev (who survived the attempt on his life).
Nikolay Marinov aka the Little Marguin, who is still missing, will be tried in his absence. There is a State-wide and European arrest warrant for the Little Marguin after he failed to appear at the last court session.
A teacher from the Pleven region has been taken into custody over allegations of sexual abuse involving two 13-year-old girls
The Sofia Court of Appeals has reduced the sentence of Orlin Vladimirov, convicted of murdering his wife Evgenia, from life imprisonment to 20 years
Deyan Iliev, the man who discovered the bodies in the Petrohan lodge on February 2 and subsequently alerted the police, has left Bulgaria,
The car and the entrance to the home of Samuil Popov, mayor of the village of Bistritsa, were deliberately set on fire in the early hours of the morning, shortly after 1:30 a.m.
In early February 2026, Bulgaria was rocked by a grim discovery that would spiral into one of the country's most disturbing cases in recent memory.
A fatal knife attack took place early this morning in Sofia’s Poduyane district, leaving one person dead and two others seriously injured, according to information from police and emergency services.
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