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Son of former Constitutional Court judge arrested for people trafficking

Sat, Sep 13 2008 15:34 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Police in Varna arrested Veselin Danov, a city councillor and the son of former Constitutional Court judge and interior minister Hristo Danov, on suspicion of links to people trafficking and the prostitution industry, Bulgarian National Television reported.

On September 12 2008, investigators, acting with a warrant from the Prosecutor-General's office, searched the VIP Pawnshop owned and managed by Danov and confiscated documents. Danov was put in 24-hour custody.

The Interior Ministry said that other suspects also had been taken into custody.

Danov was elected a city councillor in 2003 on the ticket of a party he had founded.

Danov has made headlines several times, getting national attention in Bulgaria by taking part in 2007 in reality television show Big Brother.

Mediapool.bg said that in 2006, Bulgaria's Competition Protection Commission fined him 30 000 leva for launching a weekly newspaper in Varna called 167 Hours. One of Bulgaria's mass-circulation newspapers, owned by Germany's WAZ Group, is a weekly called 168 Hours.

More recently, Danov was involved in a public protest against oil pollution on a Varna beach close to a hotel he reportedly owns.

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