May 30 2008
Bulgaria Security Agency Uncovers Chechen Mafia Group
The Bulgarian State Agency for National Security (SANS) has uncovered an organized crime group acting in Bulgaria and composed of residents of the former Soviet Union.
The news was announced by the Government Information Agency.
The group members are mainly from Chechen origin and have been detained.
The group has been permanently operating in Bulgaria since the end of the 90s and is connected to Bulgarian crime groups in the conducting of joined illegal activities.
In Bulgaria, the group members have participated in illegal arrangements of financial relationships among debtors through pressure and harassment, in racketeering and extortion, negotiations during illegal trade of goods of possible dual use and arms, contraband export of B Bulgarian cigarettes, money laundering, VAT draining, schemes for the illegal acquisition of Bulgarian citizenship and residency in Bulgaria.
The group is also suspected in the financing of terrorist forces in Chechnya.
SANS is continuing their wok into the bringing to light of other individuals in Bulgaria who have been connected to the Chechnya mafia’s activities.
Bulgaria Security Agency Uncovers Chechen Mafia Group - 30 May 2008, Friday - Novinite Ltd. - http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=93628
