Sotir Tsatsarov

The Concession of Mine 'Obrochishte' was terminated temporary with an order from the Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova. This is necessary because of non-payment of a concessional reward, the Department reported.

Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov is on a two-day official visit to Moscow, following the invitation of his counterpart Yuri Chaika, according to BNR.

The visit takes place within the frameworks of the Cooperation Agreement, signed between the two prosecutions in 2016.

Bulgarian authorities have detained six people, including two border police officers, in an operation against illegal migration at the Sofia airport last night. Two others are foreigners who organised the canal, while the other two are people who sought to benefit from the scheme.

''Burgas region has the highest criminality ratio of 17.9 in the country'', Interior Minister Valentin Radev said after a meeting with Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov and Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova, FOCUS Radio - Burgas reported.

The narcotic substance was found in a cargo truck with terracotta tiles delivered to a warehouse in Bulgaria from Iran, according to Standart newspaper, cited by BNR.

The tiles with a total weight of 23 tons travelled from Bulgaria to Holland.

The truck with the terracotta was stopped for a check by the team of the Customs in Lom on the Dunav.

''Bulgaria has been making positive and confident steps towards the fulfillment of almost all recommendations under the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification'', Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said after meetings in Brussels with representatives of the European Commission and the Belgian Prosecutor's Office, the Bulgarian National Radio reported.

Veselin Mareshki from Bulgarian political party Volya has given up his MP immunity. This is what National Assembly President Dimitar Glavchev announced from the tribune of the National Assembly at the beginning of the plenary session, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency reported.

The Bulgarian Parliament's Temporary Committee want the immunity of the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and leader of "Volya" Party Veselin Mareshki, reported Dnevnik.

The information was announced by the President of the Commission Hristian Mitev after the first and last sitting.

Locals in Bulgaria's three largest cities, Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, were due to stage protests on Monday demanding the resignation of the powerful Prosecutor General, Sotir Tsatsarov.

The National Council of BSP is voting exceptionally today the exclusion of Georgy Gergov from the party, reported Dnevnik.