Bail

Sofia's Prosecutor's Office will demand the suspension of Plovdiv Mayor Ivan Totev because he might influence the investigation.

90% of the witnesses in the investigation are hierarchically dependent on Totev, explained the spokesperson of the Prosecutor General Rumyana Arnaudova.

The request will be reviewed by the Plovdiv District Court. Totev was imposed bail of BGN 20,000.

The Haskovo District Court has released five of the border policemen and customs officers who were detained during the operation at the Kapitan Andreevo border cross check point in September on bail of BGN 5,000, reported BNR.

The same bail was set for another one of the accused who has been placed under house arrest.

25 of the customs officers who were arrested during a special operation at the border cross checkpoint Lesovo have been set free, reported Nova TV.

A total of 31 persons were detained during the operation.

It is expected that the Prosecutor's Office will decide later on Friday which of the 6 arrested customs officers will be held in custody.

Six of the customs officers detained at the border cross checkpoint Lesovo will be detained for another 72 hours under prosecutor's orders.

Another six have been granted bail, reported the Special Prosecutor's Office.

Sofia Prosecutor's Office has indicted former Sofia District Governor Veselin Penev on charges that, in the period 30.12.2015 - 26.04.2016, he did not take sufficient care of the management and preservation of the property assigned to him - the budget granted to the administration of Sofia District for 2016 and a state-owned real estate property - as a result of which significant damages were i

A businessman arrested last week on a Dutch arrest warrant in Glyfada is expected to be released Wednesday on bail of 100,000 euros.

Ioannis Karagiorgis, who is wanted by Dutch authorities for alleged fraud, forgery and other financial crimes, will have to appear at a local police station weekly and will not be allowed to leave the country.

A court in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-biggest city, has overturned the removal from office of Radi Minchev, the mayor of the southern town of Perushtitsa.

The Plovdiv Court of Appeals believes there is not enough evidence that Michev might interfere with an ongoing investigation if he remains at his post, according to BGNES wire service.

The Mayor of Perushtitsa Radi Minchev was released on Tuesday on bail of BGN 10,000 imposed by the Plovdiv Appellate Court.

The ruling of the Appellate Court is final and may not be appealed.

The former director of the Henry Dunant Hospital in northern Athens was remanded yesterday after testifying for more than three hours in connection with accusations that he laundered 3.2 million deutschemark he had received nearly two decades ago as a bribe from a German hospital outfitter.

Bulgaria's prosecuting authorities have brought criminal charges against the director of the state-run fund for medical treatment of children abroad and four of his subordinates over suspected fraud and abuse of office, bTV reported on Thursday.