Bulgaria's former PM Borissov detained, interior ministry says


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  • Friday, 18 Mar 2022

FILE PHOTO: Former Bulgarian Prime Minister and leader of centre-right GERB party Boyko Borissov speaks to the media after casting his vote at a polling station , during parliamentary and presidential elections, in Sofia, Bulgaria, November 14, 2021. REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva

SOFIA (Reuters) -Bulgaria's former Prime Minister and leader of opposition centre-right GERB party, Boyko Borissov, was detained late on Thursday as part of a police operation linked to probes by the EU Public Prosecutor's Office, the interior ministry said.

Former premier Borissov's decade-long rule ended last April after an election that showed popular anger over high-level corruption in the European Union's poorest member state.

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