The ‘golden lake’ on the Bulgarian-Turkish border ends
The practice of “golden lake” outside the territory of Bulgaria-Turkey is ended. Bulgarian Interior Minister Ivan Demerciev said that the mafia-linked buyer will now ‘give to the state’ the income of millions of levs illegally obtained at the border for 10 years.
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The illegal “golden lake” practice, which is the subject of debate on Bulgarian-Turkish satellite receivers, is ended.
Bulgarian Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerciev made an unexpected visit to Kapitan Andreevo Customs Gate opposite Kapıkule, and then made a statement to the local press.
Demerciev stated that this illegal practice, known as the “golden lake”, whose company ‘charges the state’s account fee’ for cleaning its territory entering from Turkey, will be put to an end.
Demerciev, who decided that the income of millions of levs that people connected with the mafia had earned through illegal fees at the border for 10 years, will now be given to the state, said, “The state will finally take over this business. The last evacuation when they pocket one of the money cut here.”
Bulgarian Interior Minister Ivan Demerciev / AA
NEW MEASURES REGARDING INCREASED TRAFFIC
Minister Demerciev also said that an electronic transaction system will be established at the door in Kapitan Andreevo and the transitions will be accelerated.
Demerciev said, “The enormous traffic passing through here, increasing by 20 percent every year, will be facilitated”, adding that they will add a new one to the existing two food inspections, and they also plan to establish a laboratory at the Lesovo Customs Gate (across from Hamzabeyli), thus modernizing the Lesovo Customs Gate. She explained that her burden and the birth would be lightened.
Demerciev stated that they will implement full inspection in all laboratories and emphasized that the processing capacity of Lesovo and Kapitan Andreevo should be equalized.
Minister Demerciev added that the construction of a railway line between Edirne and Yambol city of Bulgaria, the construction of road crossings from the Meriç highway to Lesovo, in order to further improve the births.
(AA)
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