A dairy processing plant near the village of Brestovene in the Razgrad region has been poisoning the land and water on which hundreds of families depend for their livelihood for years. Dozens of complaints have been filed by locals, and about ten state institutions have “responded,” yet eight years later, the case against the plant is still unresolved.

A new scandal with the stench of mafia schemes has erupted in Varna. A 7-acre plot of state-owned forest has been illegally appropriated, and buildings already stand on it, linked to individuals close to Daniel Slavov, known as Dunkata, a familiar name in the criminal underworld.

BNEWS publishes a shocking investigation claiming that the entire security and surveillance system of Delyan Peevski, sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act, has been centralised and integrated into a vast network.

The Sofia City Court has ruled that the mayor of Varna, Blagomir Kotsev, will remain in custody. The official reason is framed within judicial proceedings, but in the public sphere, the prevailing sense is that his real “crime” is refusing to sell out to the mafia.