site.btaFour Suspects, Including German National, Arrested for Child Pornography

A 75-year-old German man was arrested on Wednesday near the village of Iskra, in Bulgaria's southeastern Karnobat Municipality, during a joint operation by Bulgaria's General Directorate Combating Organized Crime (GDCOC) and the German authorities targeting an organized criminal group involved in child pornography, the GDCOC reported.

A total of four suspected members of the organized criminal group were arrested simultaneously in Iskra. The law enforcement operation followed investigative work and information indicating that the German suspect was hiding in the village. The arrest was made by the fugitive search unit of the General Directorate National Police with the assistance of the Burgas Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior (RDMI).

German police officers involved in the investigation into the criminal group in Germany also took part in the operation on the ground. 

The German man was taken to the Burgas RDMI, where further procedures are being carried out for his surrender under the Extradition and European Arrest Warrant Act.