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Bulgaria Interior Minister Receives Accolades from US State Department (Novinite.com) [Mar 26, 2010] Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, is given high marks from the US State Department for the efforts to fight corruption and organized crime. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Interior Minister Receives Accolades from US State Department (Novinite.com) [Mar 26, 2010] Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, is given high marks from the US State Department for the efforts to fight corruption and organized crime. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Justice Minister: Judicial Reform Plan Is Ready (Novinite.com) [Mar 24, 2010] Bulgaria's Justice Minister, Margarita Popova, says the judicial reform and the fight against organized crime must become top national priority. Photo by BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Interior Head: Top Magistrate Linked with Octopus Mafia (Novinite.com) [Mar 24, 2010] A leading member of Bulgaria?s judicial system has connections with alleged organized crime figures, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said. [via YahooNews] More >>

EU Urges Bulgaria, Romania to Step Up Fighting Crime (Update1) (Bloomberg) [Mar 23, 2010] March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bulgaria is showing ?poor results? in its fight against graft and organized crime, while Romania has ?not been able to keep the momentum? going on its efforts, the European Union said in a report today. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria and Romania still failing EU exam on justice reforms (EARTHtimes.org) [Mar 23, 2010] Brussels - Three years after their accession to the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria still have not met the bloc's standards for fighting corruption and organized crime, the European Commission said on Tuesday.... [via YahooNews] More >>

EU Says Bulgaria, Romania Show ?Poor Results? in Fighting Crime (Bloomberg) [Mar 23, 2010] March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bulgaria is showing ?poor results? in its fight against graft and organized crime, while Romania has ?not been able to keep the momentum? going on its reform efforts, the European Union said in a report today. [via YahooNews] More >>

EU Says Bulgaria, Romania Show ?Poor Results? in Fighting Crime (Bloomberg) [Mar 23, 2010] March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bulgaria is showing ?poor results? in its fight against graft and organized crime, while Romania has ?not been able to keep the momentum? going on its reform efforts, the European Union said in a report today. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Interior Minister Slams Magistrates' Lack of Will (Novinite.com) [Mar 17, 2010] Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, accused the judicial system of lacking the will to deal with organized crime in the country. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Police Bust Illegal Antiques Trade Channel (Novinite.com) [Mar 13, 2010] Employees of Bulgaria?s Unit for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) intercepted a channel for the illegal export of objects with cultural and historical value to the Netherlands. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Commandos Set to Help Organized Crime War (Novinite.com) [Feb 22, 2010] Bulgaria?s Interior Chief Secretary, Kalin Georgiev, has stated that commandos from the specialized unit to combat terrorism will help in the fight against organized crime. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Police Search 'Octopus' Dambovtsi Brothers' Offices (Novinite.com) [Feb 19, 2010] Bulgaria?s Unit for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP) has been involved in 2 searches Friday of the offices of Plamen and Yordan Stoyanovi aka the Dambovtsi Brothers, who were recently arrested in the ?Octopus? operation. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Supreme Judge Rebuts Reports of 'Octopus' Involvement (Novinite.com) [Feb 15, 2010] Bulgaria's former Interior Minister and current Constitutional Court Judge, Georgi Petkanov, denies any involvement in organized crime. Photo by BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM Vows to Go All the Way in Fighting Organized Crime (Novinite.com) [Feb 13, 2010] Bulgaria?s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has declared his readiness to go all the way in an all-out ?war of the state? against organized crime. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Interior Minister: We Must Win War on Organized Crime (Novinite.com) [Feb 12, 2010] Bulgaria Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has said that ?the state must win? in the war against organized crime. Tsvetanov was commenting on Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov?s ?war? comments made on Thursday in Brussels. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Tax Authorities Probe Busted DANS Agent Businesses (Novinite.com) [Feb 11, 2010] Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency had begun a tax audit of the insurance company ?Lev Ins,? connected to Aleksei Petrov, Darik radio reports. Petrov faces charges of being the ringleader of an organized crime group dealing with extortion, racket, prostitution, VAT draining and trading in influence. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Police Bust Organized Crime Group in 'Octopus' Special Operation (Novinite.com) [Feb 10, 2010] Bulgaria?s Interior Ministry has detained members of a large-scale organized crime group in Sofia in a special operation codenamed ?Octopus? carried out overnight. [via YahooNews] More >>

Journalist: Stanishev Govt Deal Stopped Mafia Excesses in Bulgaria (Novinite.com) [Feb 09, 2010] A deal between the governing circles and the people controlling organized crime during the term of Sergey Stanishev has most likely been behind the reduction of mafia tension in Bulgaria after 2005. [via YahooNews] More >>

Russia Busts Mafia Group Laundering Money in Bulgaria (Novinite.com) [Feb 04, 2010] Department for Economic Security of Russian Interior Ministry have arrested an international organized crime group laundering money in foreign countries, including Bulgaria. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Justice Minister: Penal Code Impedes Solving Crimes (Novinite.com) [Jan 27, 2010] Bulgaria's Justice Minister, Margarita Popova, says that the old NPK is too formal and includes inadequate solutions to fight corruption and organized crime. [via YahooNews] More >>