Bulgarian Border Police Officer Detained for Alleged Smuggling of Migrants

A Bulgarian border police officer was detained in an operation targeting iliegal trafficking of migrants, which took place in the center of Sofia in the evening on 25th of May. The investigation is on-going under the leadership of the specialized prosecutor's office. More employees of the Interior Ministry may be detained in the course of the operation, Mladen Marinov, the chief secretary of the Interior Ministry, said for BNT on 26^th of May.

Unfortunately, such a migrant trafficking ring thorugh the airport can not exist without the involvement of such employees, Marinov said.

The organizer who is a foreign citizen and two undocumented foreigners have been detained. They are part of the people who assisted for the illegal entry of migrants into the country.

Disrupting such a channel is a long process, requires a lot of work and discrete operation process, the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior explained.

The specialized operation launched last night is joint between Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (SANS), the Internal Security Directorate of the Ministry of Interior and the Metropolitan Directorate of the Ministry of Interior. The operation targets trafficking of illegally staying foreigners through the terrirtory of the country.