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Bulgarian anti-mafia chief charged with corruption

The head of Bulgaria's anti-mafia bureau was charged with corruption on Friday after documents surfaced indicating he protected drug traffickers in exchange for thousands of euros, prosecutors said. Between 1999 and 2002, before he became director of the GDBOP anti-mafia bureau in 2009, Stanimir Florov apparently had irregular dealings with drug traffickers and traffickers of other illegal goods, the Sofia prosecutor's office said, citing documents it had received from an anonymous source.

Bulgaria court jails "Cocaine Kingpin" for money laundering

SOFIA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A Bulgarian court sentenced a gang kingpin on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for laundering drug-dealing profits, a small step against rampant organised crime that has slowed the Balkan state's full integration into the European Union. The EU's poorest member has been repeatedly criticised by Brussels for doing too little to fight widespread corruption and gangsterism that which still blight Bulgaria two decades after the end of Communist rule.
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