site.btaDeputy Minister Gets Personal Security Detail after Threats over Border Lab Scandal

Nadezhda Filipova

Deputy Agriculture Minister Ivan Hristanov (BTA Photo)

Sadovo, southern Bulgaria,

07.06.2022 20:23

(BTA)

Deputy Agriculture Minister Ivan Hristanov has been assigned personal security detail after he received life threats following a row over the expulsion of a company that for ten years had a contract for lab tests at a busy checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. That transpired Tuesday when Prime Minister Kiril Petkov met with farmers in Sadovo, southern Bulgaria, where crops were severely damaged or destroyed by a hailstorm in late May.

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