00:00 In Bulgaria 12 people were arrested.
00:02 They are said to have illegally transported goods to Russia and Ukraine.
00:08 In the EU and NATO member state of Bulgaria, 12 people have been arrested, who are said
00:14 to have illegally transported goods with double use for the war in Ukraine to Russia.
00:21 It is 7 Bulgarian citizens, 3 Russians as well as an Albanian and a Belarusian, as the
00:27 Bulgarian public prosecutor's office, the interior ministry and the national security
00:32 agency DANS on Tuesday reported.
00:34 The goods, which can also be used militarily, went according to the information to the Russian
00:41 special units and the Wagner group in Ukraine.
00:44 The accused were said to have brought more than 4 million leva, a good 2 million euros,
00:51 to Russia, such as binoculars.
00:53 The goods were then bought abroad, wrapped in the south Bulgarian city of Plavdiv,
01:00 then sent to the capital Sofia and delivered from there to Russia.
01:04 The group has been active since 2021.
01:10 Arrests and searches took place in Sofia, Plavdiv, Varna on the Black Sea and in the
01:15 northern Bulgarian Veliko Tarnovo.
