Police in Bulgaria detained the creator of a false site that allegedly collected funds for the campaign in support of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for HIV infection in Libya.

The site called for the donation of funds in favour of the nurses. Money transfers could be made from Bulgaria and abroad.

Interior Ministry reported this is the first cyber case in Bulgaria in which someone tried to use a major humanitarian campaign to accumulate funds for personal benefit.

National private channel bTV received signals of the scheme on February 14. An investigation group, including FBI representatives to Bulgaria immediately started working on the case.

Through a joint operation in the US and Bulgaria police managed to identify the bank account of the man who created the website. He is aged 25 and comes from Plovdiv. The man has Bulgarian and US citizenship.

Two similar sites were created and hosted on a server in the US. One led to the website of a false organisation named Free and Democratic Bulgaria. It called for donations varying from one to 500 dollars to aid the medics in Libya.