site.btaUPDATED US Updates List of Bulgarians Sanctioned under Magnitsky Act

The Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office has sent letters through the Justice Ministry to the US Department of Justice requesting the information based on which the competent US authorities imposed sanctions on five Bulgarian nationals. The

The Interior Ministry structures will check all available operational information on those sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act, and all proceedings that have been or are currently underway, and then the data will be merged and analysed, said Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister in the caretaker Cabinet Ivan Demerdzhiev at a briefing here on Monday in response to a journalist's question about what checks the Interior Ministry is planning in relation to the new persons included in the sanctions.

"For the first time, we are identifying individuals from Europe as being at risk of serious corruption," British Ambassador to Bulgaria Robert Dixon told bTV in a Sunday inteview. 

The Council of Ministers press service reported on Friday that the caretaker government is committed to the rule of law and the fight against corruption in Bulgaria. "The new information disclosed under the global Magnitsky Act and the UK's global anti-corruption sanctions regime is primarily within the purview of the judiciary," the release said.