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Focus News
April 18, 2018
... committee on the CEZ Bulgaria sale until May 10, Focus News Agency reports. The extension was proposed by the committee itself, as it is waiting for additional information from the Ministry of Energy, the energy and financial regulators, the State Agency for National Security and other state institutions.
BulgarianPresidency.eu (blog)
April 18, 2018
Desislava Ivancheva, the mayor of the Sofia district of Mladost, and her deputy Bilyana Petrova, were arrested yesterday (17 April) in broad daylight in downtown Sofia by hooded policemen of the newly created anti-corruption body. They were kept for hours in the street, to the benefit of paparazzi who tookÃâà...
Lexology
March 23, 2018
Direct access to these registers will be available only to law enforcement agencies (such as the Financial Supervision Commission, the Bulgarian National Bank and Financial Investigations Department of the State Agency for National Security), as well to entities required to apply anti-money launderingÃâà...
Focus News
March 15, 2018
The Government approved and proposed to the National Assembly amendments to the State Agency for National Security (SANS) Act to implement the ... According to the national legislation, the National Passenger Information Unit (PIU) for collecting and processing PNR Data in Bulgaria is part of theÃâà...
Focus News
March 7, 2018
SANS [the State Agency for National Security] and the National Revenue Agency are already looking into the finances of the company buying the Bulgarian assets of [Czech power utility] CEZ, as instructed by the prime minister. If they find any violations, including evidence for criminal offences, then we willÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
February 27, 2018
Two other state institutions were tasked with investigating Inercom, the proposed buyer of CEZ's seven subsidiaries in Bulgaria – the State Agency for National Security and the National Revenue Agency. Inercom's owner, Ginka Varbakova, said that the company had no outstanding debts to the revenueÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
February 25, 2018
On February 24, the government information service said that Borissov had asked the State Agency for National Security and the National Revenue Agency to conduct a full investigation into the deal. Borissov said that the energy regulator and the Financial Supervision Commission should be involved inÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
February 23, 2018
The buyer is Bulgarian firm Inercom Bulgaria, with a contract expected to be signed “in a few days”, CEZ said. Petkova said that the reason ... The State Agency for National Security would also conduct an investigation because it was a matter of strategic infrastructure for energy security. Petkova has been aÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
February 21, 2018
The Bulgarian Prosecutor-General's office said on February 21 that pre-trial proceedings had been opened in connection with an offence related to the building of the fence at the border with Turkey, but is declining to give opposition MPs a State Agency for National Security report on the matter, saying thatÃâà...
Focus News
February 20, 2018
Commenting on another issue, she urged the Prosecutor's Office to launch an investigation into corruption based on a report from the State Agency for National Security about prices in excess of market prices in the construction of the fence on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. She said it was a “huge corruptionÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
February 20, 2018
The new law envisions the merger of several institutions currently tasked with fighting corruption, including a department in the State Agency for National Security, the government's commission on fighting corruption and the asset forfeiture commission. Among the bill's more controversial provisions is that itÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
February 16, 2018
Peevski is noted for, among other things, having been the appointee in 2013 to head the State Agency for National Security, a move that led to ... by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov followed comments in a television interview by Borissov that effectively linked theÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
February 14, 2018
On February 14, the same day as Georgiev's declaration, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov's GERB party declared in Parliament its rejection of the Lukov March, describing the event as an opportunity for participants in the march to express support for an anti-democratic national socialist ideology.
The Sofia Globe
January 19, 2018
A statement by the Prosecutor's Office said that prosecutors and investigators from the Special Prosecutor's investigation unit, as well as officers from Bulgaria's directorate against organised crime and the State Agency for National Security, were involved in the international investigation. This was on theÃâà...
Lexology
January 18, 2018
rules for risk assessment. enhanced customer due diligence, including comprehensive identification of the beneficial owner and the origin of funds, as well as simplified customer due diligence, based on a risk assessment. advance reporting obligations to the Bulgarian State Agency for National SecurityÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
September 13, 2017
A national security report adopted by Bulgaria's Cabinet that named Russia as one of the main foreign policy risks caused a stormy reaction among political parties in the National Assembly on September 13. According to the report, which is yet to be debated by Parliament's committee and in plenary, “theÃâà...
Novinite.com
July 18, 2017
Through its Interior Ministry, Bulgaria has requested information on the matter, the official explained. He assured the journalists that every individual case, reported to the agency, is thoroughly checked. Officially, all Bulgarian institutions said that there was no information about Bulgarian citizens who areÃâà...
The Sofia Globe
June 21, 2017
Charges have been lodged in the Sofia City Court against two State Agency for National Security (SANS) agents on several counts after an investigation into a scheme to defraud foreigners who had applied for permanent residence in Bulgaria, prosecutors said on June 21. Pre-trial proceedings wereÃâà...
