site.btaEnergy Minister Hristov Confirms Reports about Magnitsky-Sanctioned Alexander Nikolov at Energy Ministry

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.

Justice Minister Krum Zarkov believes that Bulgaria should have followed up on the Magnitsky Act sanctions long ago. He told journalists that among the measures it should have taken, are the reform of the anti-corruption commission, adoption of a

Commenting a recent batch of sanctions against Bulgarians for major corruption by the US and the UK, Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Pekanov said that it is exactly the steps that are needed to fight corruption, that gets postponed. "Corruption kills,