Bulgarian Police uncovered over €5 million in cash from hotels owned by a rich businessman in Sofia and in Bulgaria’s second largest city, Plovdiv.
A prosecutor who took part in the action reportedly said he had never seen anything of the kind in his whole career.
One of the hotels searched was Marinela, the flagship hotel of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Apparently hotel Marinela has shocked many of its EU guests by the presence of scarcely dressed young women.
A Bulgarian website has reported that the wife of an EU official was so disturbed by the sight of these women in Sofia that the couple were transferred to Hilton Hotel.
Political analysis by Plamen Asenov
