Mobsters Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev, better known as the Galevi brothers, are hiding in Africa, according to reports that emerged just days after the notorious pair was sentenced by Bulgaria's Supreme Court to serve time in jail.

Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev have fled to Africa just days before they were sentenced to jail and were imposed a ban to leave the country, local Struma dialy reported, citing friends of the two.

Two members of a major organized crime group in the Irish city of Limerick have been arrested in Bulgaria's Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach.

The two were arrested in an apartment after Bulgarian police was notified about the matter by the Garda Síochána (Ireland's Police Service), according to reports of Irish Daily The Irish Times.

A man has been shot dead in Bulgaria's capital Sofia less than a week after another gangland murder.

The 53-year-old Vasil Lazov, a native of Sofia, was gunned down at about 1:40 pm on Monday in the Vitosha quarter in Sofia, not far from his home, the Interior Ministry announced.

Two armed men have robbed at gunpoint a branch of United Bulgarian Bank, OBB, Thursday morning.

The branch is located in Sofia's "Studentski Grad" (College Town) District. The robbers were tall, dressed in black overalls with an "Evrotour" logo and wore black helmets.

A 40-year-old man was shot dead in the very downtown of Bulgaria's capital Sofia early on Wednesday.

The accident took place at approximately 10:00 am at the crossing of the Cyril and Methodius and Budapest streets.

Organised crime controls about 4.5 per cent of the Bulgarian economy, adding up to a sector of the economy that is worth about 3.5 billion, a conference in Sofia on dealing with organised crime was told on April 3 2012.
 
The figures come from research done by the Centre for the Study of Democracy and were presented by the centre’s director, Tihomir Bezlov.

The Bulgarian government is going to close a number of night clubs and bars in the Sofia Studentski Grad (College Town) district.

Education Minister, Sergey Ignatov, cited by Standard daily, informs that his institution will direct colleges and universities to close those establishments for which the Ministry's audit found large-scale violations.

Dimitar Sukalinski, 41, has been found dead inside his apartment in Bulgaria's southwestern city of Blagoevgrad, according to a report of local police.

Sukalinski AKA Banskaliyata (from Bansko) is the Head of the local "Pirin" football team fan club. Police say that he has been murdered around 9 pm Thursday evening, and died from stab wounds.

British Ambassador to Bulgaria Jonathan Allen had an unpleasant accident Sunday in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, according to his Twitter account.

"Bad end to a lovely day in Plovdiv. Car window smashed and satnav stolen. Waiting with police now for forensics team," he wrote on Sunday afternoon.

British Ambassador to Bulgaria Jonathan Allen had an unpleasant accident Sunday in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, according to his Twitter account.

"Bad end to a lovely day in Plovdiv. Car window smashed and satnav stolen. Waiting with police now for forensics team," he wrote on Sunday afternoon.

A college student, Ilko Radev, from the northeastern city of Dobrich has been charged with the murder of a dorm roommate.

The news was reported by the private TV channel bTV Thursday morning.

Mario Danchev, 19, a student from the Economy University in Sofia, was stabbed and killed in the dormitory where he lived in the early hours Wednesday.

The man who perished early Friday morning in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna when his car exploded in motion is businessman Yordan Harasimov.

The explosion occurred at a major downtown Varna crossroads near the Varna University of Economics shortly after 8 am on Friday, the BTA agency reported.