SOFIA: Bulgaria’s Specialised Prosecutor’s Office brought a criminal indictment on December 30, 2015 against 7 customs officers who worked at the Lesovo border checkpoint and were part of a crime group established with the aim of taking bribes, the press centre of the Prosecutor’s Office announced.
The 7 defendants were detained on November 1, 2014 in the course of a special operation of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) carried out under the supervision of the Specialised Prosecutor’s Office.
Head and founder of the crime group Dimitar Kolev, who also headed the Lesovo border checkpoint, heads of shifts Georgi Banev and Chavdar Dyulgerov, and customs inspectors Dimitar Shopov, Iliya Iliev, Yuriy Kuznetsov, and Yolanta Kanchelyan-Bozukova will go to trial.
According to the collected evidence, the crime group operated from March 2014 to November 1, 2014.
