All news on the topic: Bulgaria

At the request of the EPPO in Berlin and Katowice, 11 suspects were arrested in Germany, Poland and Latvia in the ‘Water into Wine’ investigation into a large-scale diesel VAT fraud scheme. More than 100 searches were carried out across six European countries.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia (Bulgaria), eight suspects were detained today, including a public official, over a €900 000 subsidy fraud involving employment benefits.

Be Club’s SageMaster has received an investor fraud warning from Bulgaria’s Financial Supervision Commission (FSC).

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia (Bulgaria) filed an indictment today at the Sofia City Court against an EU project consultant suspected of fraud involving a project for dental care.

Journalist Iryna Hryb has repeatedly written about Odesa businessman Oleh Nevzorov. Now, stories that previously circulated through sources are beginning to receive confirmation and gain new details on Bulgarian territory.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania) conducted searches on Wednesday as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving two projects for the production of lithium-ion battery units and prefabricated metal modular structures, each valued at approximately €10 million and co-funded by the EU.

They appeared as distinct brokers vying for your investment. Beneath the surface, they had the same staff, the same spreadsheets, and the same objective: to swiftly take your money away.

In 2018, Dmitry Levin, who at the time was a senior executive at Otkritie Bank and is now a vice president at Gazprombank, was planning to acquire a commercial bank in Bulgaria.

A multi-country investigation resulted in arrests and the recovery of priceless cultural treasures from across the Balkans. These include masks, jewelry, and ceremonial items dating back to 2000 B.C. and are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

A Bulgaria-led operation supported by Europol and coordinated with Eurojust arrested 35 suspects, including an alleged ringleader, and dismantled a criminal network that allegedly looted archaeological sites across the Balkans, seizing thousands of artifacts valued at 100 million euros ($115 million), authorities said Wednesday.

A Bulgarian court has postponed a hearing on Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, the Russian-Cypriot ship operator linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people, pending assurances that he will not face the death penalty if extradited.

Bulgaria is urgently working to prevent the closure of its only oil refinery before U.S. sanctions on the Russian owner come into force later this month.

Bulgaria, a Balkan nation with a population of 6.5 million, is situated along a former key route for migrants traveling from the Middle East and Afghanistan to Europe, passing through Iran and Turkey.

The arrest in Bulgaria of Igor Grechushkin — whose ship carried chemicals to Lebanon that exploded in 2020 — is viewed as a sign that a long stalled investigation might finally get results.

Bulgarian authorities have arrested a man who held the lease on the ship that brought thousands of tons of chemicals to Beirut, where they exploded in 2020 while in storage at the port, causing catastrophic damage and killing more than 200 people.

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was affected by radar jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson says.

Law enforcement teams conduct searches of homes and offices in several cities at Kyiv’s request, but no arrests have been made thus far.

Two professional scam call-center operations relied on affiliate marketing firms to provide them with contact details of individuals who had clicked on ads for fake investment platforms.

A jury at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, has just found six of my compatriots — citizens of Bulgaria — guilty of conspiring with the Kremlin to kidnap and possibly murder me and my colleague and friend, Roman Dobrokhotov.

Jury finds Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova, and Tihomir Ivanchev guilty of alleged plots across Europe

A man has died after he slipped and fell 1,900ft while taking pictures at a ski resort in Bulgaria.

Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them.

Aleksandr Lukashenko has supported and continues to support Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria.

Hacktivists have released a list of individuals purportedly involved in election fraud.

A Bulgarian company with Norwegian links has surfaced in the supply chain of the pagers that detonated in Lebanon this week, killing 37 people and injuring several thousand others.