A Bulgarian court sentenced a gang kingpin on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for laundering drug-dealing profits, a small step against rampant organised crime that has slowed the Balkan state’s full integration into the European Union…
He was accused of having laundered more than two million euros ($2.67 million) in drug-trafficking proceeds using a personal account belonging to a businessman shot dead in 2005.
Banev was arrested last May in an international police operation, dubbed “Cocaine Kingpins”, involving Bulgarian, Italian, French, Swiss and Spanish authorities.
Some 30 people, including 15 Bulgarians, 12 Italians, one Slovenian, one Romanian and one Georgian were arrested, with Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov saying the cocaine had been sold in three regions of Italy.
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