Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A UK-based spy ring had connections in the “highest echelons” of the Bulgarian government, a court has heard. Katrin Ivanova, 33, and two others are ...

Striking news reaches us from Bulgaria as Bulgarian police there allegedly refused to help three Egyptian teenagers who were freezing to death near the Bulgarian-Turkish border in late December.

SOFIA, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Bulgarian law enforcement authorities have arrested three members of an international criminal group that manufactures synthetic drugs, the country's Interior Ministry said ...

Swedish prosecutors have decided to release a vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company after ruling out initial ...

A Bulgarian woman charged with being part of a Russian spy cell operating in the UK has denied knowing that information she gathered would be sent to Russia. Katrin Ivanova, 33, is accused of spying ...

SOFIA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria has reaffirmed commitment to fighting human trafficking amid increasing migrant and refugee flows.

The indictment involves a consortium of four companies, including two managers from an Italian company and a manager from a Bulgarian firm. Among the accused is a former director of the National ...

The court was told Dzhambazov is alive and well at present. Earlier on Friday, Ivanova, a Bulgarian national, told jurors she met Dzhambazov while working in a summer job when she was 17.

Policymakers concede that crime is another concern, fed by stories in the popular western European press about Romanian and Bulgarian crime syndicates flooding cities with pickpockets, prostitutes ...

Orlin Roussev, a Kremlin agent, is said to have been the “leader” of the alleged spy operation from a guest house in Great Yarmouth.

Biser Dzhambazov has pleaded guilty to espionage charges (Met Police/PA) A UK-based spy ring had connections in the “highest echelons” of the Bulgarian government, a court has heard.