By end-March a committee will have decided which World War 2 Maybach tanks owned by Bulgaria's Defence Ministry will be put for sale and which will be sent to a museum, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.

Currently all Maybach tanks are stored in the ministry's warehouse in Yambol central Bulgaria, the warehouse chief Iliya Iliev told BTA.

The ministry decided to sell the tanks after several cases of smuggling of parts of the tanks became known in February this year.  Six people, among whom a German national were arrested in the past three months for smuggling parts of Maybachs that had been left unattended by the army.

Following the high interest collectors showed in the Maybachs, the ministry started digging up the tanks, which served as firing points at the Bulgarian-Turkish border during the Cold War. They were positioned there in 1955/1957.