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Revenue agency, customs office leak information - Interior Minister

Wed, Feb 17 2010 12:01 CET

byRene Beekman

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Revenue agency, customs office leak information - Interior Minister

 
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Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency (NRA) and the customs office leak large amounts of information, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said before a Cabinet meeting on February 17 2010.

Three NRA employees had been arrested earlier in the day in a combined operation of the Interior Ministry and the NRA. The three were suspected of tax fraud, Tsvetanov was quoted by Bulgarian-language daily Dnevnik as saying.

Five homes in Veliko Turnovo had been searched as part of the operation.

One customs employee had been arrested at one of the border checkpoints on suspicion of being complicit in the smuggling of perfume worth four million leva, Tsvetanov said.

Documents found in searches showed that about 30 000 leva a month had been earmarked to be distributed to senior customs officials who protected the operation, according to Tsvetanov.

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