Two Bulgarian nationals, three Iraqi citizens and an Algerian national accused of migrant smuggling were detained yesterday during a large-scale operation against illegal migration. The detainees were smuggling migrants on part of the Bulgarian..
Bulgaria’s National Assembly adopted at first reading amendments to the Criminal Code related to the introduction of severe punishment for migrant smuggling and human trafficking. According to the amendments, those who help foreign nationals stay..
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior announced that a criminal ring which smuggled migrants from Bulgaria through Serbia to Western Europe was broken up in a joint operation of the State Agency for National Security and the Prosecutor’s Office. A Bulgarian..
Nine customs officers have been detained at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey on suspicion of involvement in corruption schemes for smuggling migrants across the border. “Searches are underway in four towns in the region of..
Twenty-six illegal immigrants travelling by car have been detained near Ahtopol on the Black Sea, the Ministry of Interior has announced. The immigrants - 9 men, 13 women and 4 children - do not have IDs and say they come from Iraq. The foreign..
