Sun, Nov 08 2009
Bulgaria's dossier opening committee said that 15 members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) co-operated somehow with the former State Security intelligence service.
According to the committee's report, four of the magistrates were agents and the others worked for the services in some manner.
The committee was set up to open formerly classified files and find out whether any state officials or public figures were former agents.
National Assembly already published the results of the investigation on its website.
Head of the dossier opening committee Evtim Kostadinov told Bulgarian National Radio that work on the past of officials in major national offices is ongoing.
The committee will also try to investigate the past of all candidates to run in Bulgaria's upcoming municipal elections. Though the amount of work was significant, the committee would try to complete the investigation by the autumn, Kostadinov said.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.