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Bulgaria's parliament voted to elect Boyko Rashkov for head of the office for monitoring the use of special surveillance devices.
Rashkov, who served as chief of the national intelligence service during the Socialist cabinet of Zhan Videnov, notorious for the banking crisis it brought to the country, was elected with the votes of 112 MPs.
Rashkov is a former member of the Supreme Judicial Council, he has also served as justice deputy minister.
His nomination for the SSD office was tabled by the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov has been summoned for questioning at the Sofia City Prosecutor (SCP)'s Office on the “Hemus” case today at 2 p.m., Nova TV reports
"If he does that in GERB (Borissov’s political party), they will put my portrait on the wall and canonize me. If that is the goal, he’s welcome to do it."
The investigation of the Specialized Prosecutor's Office on the signal of the acting Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov against the Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev has ended, a refusal to initiate pre-trial proceedings has been ruled,
The picture is horrifying, the people on the bus are crowded and charcoal, so no one can say at the moment how many there are. This was said to journalists by the acting Minister of Interior Boyko Rashkov on the occasion of the severe accident with a bus
A former police officer who rose to become interior minister was paid by a well-known drug trafficker. This was established by the special services, the acting Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov announced to bTV, without giving names.
Bulgarian caretaker Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov told Parliament that migration pressure on the country is increasing.
"Everyone wants positions – in regulatory bodies and ministries," he emphasized.
Bulgaria’s toll system now has the technical capability to track average vehicle speeds, as announced by the National Toll Management following a meeting with Regional Development Minister Violeta Koritarova.
The income required to cover living expenses for a working individual and a three-member family with a child under 14 has remained almost unchanged compared to June, according to an analysis by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CI
The Council of Ministers has adopted a resolution to set the minimum wage at 1,077 leva, reflecting a 15.
Every 20 minutes, fire alerts are received from across Bulgaria.
I feel no moral guilt towards anyone. This was stated by Kiril Petkov, answering a question whether he would apologize to the Bulgarian people for violating the Constitution.
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