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Organised crime groups get help from within Interior Ministry - Prime Minister

Tue, Dec 22 2009 15:40 CET

byRene Beekman

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Organised crime groups get help from within Interior Ministry - Prime Minister

 
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Organised crime groups are getting help from within the Interior Ministry, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov admitted on December 22 2009.

According to Borissov, among the organised crime groups who had received help from within the ministry, were The Insolents and Crocodiles. 

Borissov made his admission after an AmCham business luncheon.

The gang known by the name of the Crocodiles, was involved in an attempted robbery where a member of the gang was killed and a police officer wounded in a gun battle on December 13 2009 on the Trakiya motorway near the interchange with Vakarel.

The Insolents is the name used for an organised crime group suspected of involvement in a series of kidnappings in recent years.
Members of both groups had been arrested in recent days.

"The system leaks and has to be cleaned out, and the only way to do that is by removing inside people," Borissov was quoted by Bulgarian daily Dnevnik as saying.
Borissov said he hoped there was not also political involvement in the case of The Isolents.

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Anonymous Cosmos Tue, Dec 22 2009 21:49 CET
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Now is your chance to do what is right and clean out the corrupt system we shall see and wait for outcome.


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