Bulgaria's ruling majority in the Parliament has adopted another part of a controversial bill authorizing confiscation of illegal assets at midnight Wednesday and the debates are continuing full force Thursday.

The top twelve organized crime activities in Bulgaria generate some BGN 3.5 B (EUR 1.7 B) annually, according to a report of the Sofia-based NGO Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD).

January 3, 2012, is the first working day of Bulgaria's brand-new "anti-mafia" court and the respective prosecutor's office.

Bulgarian and Austrian police have busted a human trafficking network in a joint operation, the press center of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry reported Wednesday.

Seventeen Bulgarian traffic police were arrested in a special operation on September 27 2011, and are to face charges of corruption and of operating as an organised crime group.

There are exactly 262 organized crime groups active in Bulgaria an the country's Interior Ministry know of all of them, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has claimed

Organised crime group dealing with drug trafficking has been neutralised in the frames of an international police operation, the press ofice of the Interior Ministry announced

An organized international crime group, which had laundered over EUR 150 M, has been busted in Bulgaria

Serbian citizen Goran Vukovic was arrested in Sofia in a joint operation by Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian police in connection with alleged fraud running into millions in a number of Balkan countries, the Interior Ministry said on July 19 2011

Giovanni Falcone, Prosecutor, as well as his colleague Paolo Borsellino and the General of the Carabinieri Carlo Dalla Chiesa, are the most famous victims of the fight of the Italian State against organized crime