US Department of State in Bulgaria’s State Department is interested in the investigation of which six people were previously detained. This was stated by the head of the press service of the American Foreign Ministry Ned Price on its page in twitter .
“We carefully follow the investigation in Bulgaria about the supposed Russian spy network. The United States firmly support the sovereignty of Bulgaria and stand on the side of Bulgaria, speaking against these hostile actions on its territory,” he said.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the audio recorders and video materials presented at the briefing are proof of unlawful actions of detainees. The chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev noted that the criminal group was disclosed with the help of the “EU Special Services and the United States”.
On March 19, the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office reported that six employees of the Ministry of Defense of Bulgaria and military intelligence were detained on suspicion of espionage in favor of Russia.
In January, the prosecutor’s office of Bulgaria opened pre-trial investigations against two Russian diplomats in the case of espionage. It was established that from 2017 to the present one of them was engaged in spyware activities, collecting information about the electoral process in Bulgaria. It has been established that he has diplomatic immunity as the first secretary of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Sofia.
It is noted that the second Russian from October 2018 to the present collected information, which is a state and official secret in the field of energy. He then sent her to the headquarters of the Russian intelligence service in Moscow.