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Italian ambassador offers Bulgaria anti-mafia help

Fri, Aug 28 2009 09:16 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Italian ambassador offers Bulgaria anti-mafia help

Camorra mafia boss Edoardo Contini is accompanied by Italian police after his arrest in Naples, December 15 2007.


Italian ambassador in Sofia Stefano Benazzo has offered Bulgaria the help of his country’s anti-mafia commission to assist Bulgaria’s specialist inter-department investigation unit that is to take up the fight against organised crime.
 
The offer was made in a meeting with Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, in Sofia on August 27 2009.
 
The unit that is to be set up in Bulgaria will include officials from the Interior Ministry, prosecuting magistrates and the State Agency for National Security.
 
Benazzo and Tsvetanov discussed the criticism of the European Commission stated in its report on Bulgaria's progress in fighting corruption and organised crime under the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism.
 
They discussed strengthening police co-operation against trans-border crime, as well as joint projects in which Bulgaria could draw on Italy’s law enforcement experience.
 

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