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Valentin Radev: No more Bulgarians will be sentenced for migrant smuggling because of unregistered vehicles

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Dozens of Bulgarians were recently sentenced in Greece for human trafficking, because they sold their vehicles and the new owners and real perpetrators of the crime had not registered the vehicles on their name. However, this will no longer happen, Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Valentin Radev has assured. In his words, however, the police cannot do much with unscrupulous buyers who do not re-register  their vehicles and use them for migrant smuggling for instance, Dnevnik daily informs.




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