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Three people have been arrested in Pazardzhik, Southern Bulgaria, on suspicion of people smuggling and offering bribes, police say.
Authorities report in a statement they stopped on Saturday a minivan en route to Sofia with a Bulgarian driver where ten people with no identity documents, who claimed to be from Afghanistan, were traveling.
As police were inspecting the documents of the driver and another Bulgarian accompanying him, a third Bulgarian approach suggesting the officers could take a bribed to "turn a blind eye" on the minivan.
Bulgarian authorities are facing serious accusations of obstructing the rescue of three Egyptian teenage boys who tragically froze to death near the Bulgarian-Turkish border in late December
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Atanas Ilkov announced that there is no evidence of violence by border police officers against migrants
In the past week, five migrants have tragically lost their lives in the Strandzha mountain area near the "Indzhe Voyvoda" settlement
On the evening of November 28, 26 migrants were discovered in a truck on the road near the town of Varshets
Bulgarian police detained a group of illegal migrants following a high-speed chase on Sofia’s ring road
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed support for plans to negotiate with countries such as Vietnam, Turkey, and Iraq to help manage the flow of illegal migrants into the UK
Asa Hutchinson, former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and ex-governor of Arkansas, has raised alarms over reports that Russian fuel is being smuggled through the private Burgas port "Europe"
Authorities in Bulgaria have charged two men, aged 29 and 20, with the murder of 20-year-old Marian Paskov from the town of Kula
A 41-year-old Russian woman was found dead in her home in the Bulgarian seaside town of Balchik
A 32-year-old man from Sofia has been charged with causing moderate bodily harm after attacking two meteorologists at the synoptic station on Murgash Peak in the Balkan Mountains
The prosecutor’s office is expected to release more details later today about the investigation into the brutal murder of 20-year-old Marian Paskov in the Bulgarian town of Kula
Two meteorologists on duty at the forecasting station on Murgash Peak were brutally attacked on the night of March 9
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