Chief Directorate

Stanimir Stanev has been released from the post of Deputy Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Stanev was in hospital for a long time. The previous deputy the chief secretary was released on the initiative of the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs because he is of retirement age.

Flights at the Gaziantep Airport were stopped for about 12 hours, while 26 flights were canceled after an unidentified object was reported in the airspace.

An unidentified object was detected by the cockpit crew of two passenger planes at an altitude of approximately 9,000 feet (2,743 meters) in the southern province of Gaziantep at around midnight on May 20.

Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov confirmed for BTA late on Thursday that politicians were being wiretapped by two security agencies - the State Agency for National Security (SANS) and the State Agency Technical Operations (SATO). Rashkov further said that he has received information about materials being destroyed at SANS.

The bomb threat emails to airports and media in Bulgaria were sent by providers from Switzerland and Seychelles, the Chief Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime (CDCOC) said on August 22. A day earlier, such emails were sent to institutions in several other European countries and in Vancouver, Canada, reports BNT. 

The Chief Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime and the special prosecutor's office disrupted a crime group for evading taxes related to public procurements. Four people have been charged, reports BNT. 

Bulgaria's Minister of Interior has ordered preventive actions in connection with the adverse weather forecast, the Ministry of Interior announced on 1st of October.

The Mediterranean cyclone from Greece was forecast to influence the weather in Bulgaria.

For about an hour on 13th of November, forest owners, residents and workers in Pamporovo ski resort blocked the traffic on the main road Smolyan - Plovdiv, periodically letting waiting cars to pass. The protest was staged over the intended closure of the firefighting service in the resort.

The traffic along the border with Turkey is normal, there is no crowding of buses or cars. This was reported  from the press office of Chief Directorate 'Border Police'.

The activity of the checkpoints was not interrupted during the night in both directions, the traffic is normal.

Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov presented on Friday the results of the inspections of the ministries which he ordered at the first meeting of the caretaker cabinet.

The PM ordered the preparation of analytical reports on the state of the ministries with an emphasis on public procurement orders and steps to be taken in order to deal with possible violations.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Saturday suggested Greece might make use of its northern neighbor's security forces to tackle the migrant crisis by cracking down on smugglers.

Borisov commented on the migrant crisis after a joint drill between police and army officers in Southwestrn Bulgaria, at the border with Greece and not far from the one with Macedonia.