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Two people allegedly involved in the distribution of counterfeit bank notes handed themselves over to police, shortly after EUR 12 in fake notes were found in a Bulgarian reservoir, local media report.

Bulgaria's border police have given an award to a voluntary border patrol which detained 23 refugees near the country's border with Turkey, border police chief Antonio Angelov said on Thursday.

There is no heightened migrant pressure on Bulgarian borders, with the number of refugees passing through the country's borders comparable to the figures from last year.

This was announced by Antonio Angelov, director of border police, in an interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) on Tuesday.

A joint exercise is to be conducted on Saturday in Southwestern Bulgaria, at the border with Greece and near the one in Macedonia, in light of potentially increasing migratory pressure.

The drill will be held in the region of Petrich, Sandanski and Kulata, the latter being a major border crossing point with Greece.

Ventsislav Angelov, a mayoral candidate in the northern Bulgarian town or Ruse, is now being sought nationally after being sentenced to 3.5 years for drug trafficking, prosecutors say.

The migrants who held a sit-in protest inside Turkey close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria last week, demanding passage to western Europe, have been persuaded by the Turkish authorities to go back to the camps they had come from, a Bulgarian official has said.

Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant has reported a profit of around BGN 156 M for the first nine months of the year, according to Dimitar Angelov, CEO of the N-plant.

Angelov, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio, made clear that the accounting profit of the Kozloduy NPP for the first six months of stood at BGN 116 000 000.

Strahil Angelov, a former lawmaker and now deputy head of one of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)'s local organizations in the capital Sofia, is leading the party.

Along with two other BSP members, Iskra Neycheva and Bozhidar Petrov, Angelov is quitting due to the lack of development within the party which, in his words, is failing to move forward in a constantly changing world.

''We were about 15-20 people working on the site,'' stated Stefan Angelov, one of the workers on the site of the collapsed hotel Veronika in Varna Wednesday. ''Around 5 pm, Mister Goergiev ordered to five people to enter the hotel and to start destroying the base with metal cutting machines. One of them refused. So, the other four were ordered to go in.

The chief executive of the European Defence Agency (EDA) Jorge Domecq will arrive on an official visit to Bulgaria on Wednesday.

The schedule of his visit foresees meetings with Bulgaria's Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev and Economy Minister Bozhidar Lukarski.