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The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency has impounded assets operated by firms connected to Tsvetan Vasilev, majority owner of collapsed Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank or KTB).

The shares of a company owning several hotels have been impounded, Pressa daily reported.

The road between Asenovgrad and Smolyan still remains closed both ways due to the new landslide in the region. It is expected that the road will be unblocked by the end of the day.

In order for the rocks after the landslide can be cleared faster, excavators will be working on both sides of the road.

Since the beginning of the new year, 281 migrants have been detained as they attempted to cross the Bulgaria-Romania border illegally.

This was announced by the department of the Border Police in the Bulgarian city of Ruse, private bTV station reports.

The owner of a Bulgarian company operating a ferry between Svishtov (Bulgaria) and Zimnicea (Romania) has complained of corruption resulting in losses of an average of EUR 40 000 a month for Bulgaria.

Police in Bulgaria's northeastern Shumen Region have arrested four people suspected of illicit possession of and trading in archaeological artefacts.

As BGNES news outlet reported on Tuesday, police have found 19 marble and stone slabs and sculptures as well as ancient coins and moulds for production of fake coins at the homes of the suspects.

Bulgaria's Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov ordered an urgent inspection in the tomb of the Thracian King Seuthes III after a collapse had been reported by the municipality of Kazanlak.

According to local Press TV, the Golyamata Kosmatka Mound, which contains the tomb, collapsed with nearly a meter and 5 cubic metres of soil had been removed from its corridor.

A landslide consisting of approximately 80 cubic meters of earth mass has been activated over the past night at the verge of the Smolyan neighborhood Ustovo.

The massive rocks on the road between Smolyan and Pamporovo have been blocking road traffic since Sunday.  

The massive landslide blocking the road between Smolyan and Pamporovo will not be cleared in less than 48 hours, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.

Employees of the Ruse-based arms and ammunition manufacturer Dunarit are set to stage a protest on Friday over the government's decision to scrap the plant's license over a "threat to national security."

The regions of Smolyan and Kardzhali, as well as the municipalities of Ivaylovgrad Laki, Batak, Sarnitsa, Velingrad, Haskovo and Galabovo remain in a state of emergency over the heavy rains and snowstorms in Bulgaria.

Close to 538 locations across the country had no electricity, as announced by the Interior Ministry's Press Office.