Sun, Nov 08 2009
Custom officers at the Oryahovo ferry border checkpoint with Romania seized 65 kg of heroin from a cargo vehicle with Bulgarian registration, Vratsa regional police office said.
According to Dnevnik daily, the drug was divided in 126 packages, hidden in three travelling bags. The bags were loaded on the trailer of the vehicle, property of a company based in Plovdiv. The vehicle was heading to Germany, transporting sacks of polypropylene.
The driver, who is Bulgarian, aged 34, was detained for 24 hours, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.
Local police informed the Vratsa prosecution, an investigation has been launched.
Chemical and pharmaceutical tests were ordered. The results would show the concentration of heroin in the packages found and its value, BTA 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.