Press Digest: Bulgaria - Feb 24

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24/02/2020 07:17

SOFIA, Feb 24 (Reuters) -    These are some of the main
stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not
verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
        
    TRUD - Bulgaria's gambling regulator is seeking over 700
million levs from lottery companies controlled by fugitive
gambling tycoon Vasil Bozhkov, the finance minister said. The
companies have applied wrongly the taxation on lottery games, he
said. 
    DUMA - Bulgaria is losing about $110 million in transit fees
after Russia stopped gas deliveries to Turkey, Greece and
Macedonia through Bulgaria from the start of the year, Energy
Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said.
    -- Bulgarian retail company Lafka, which has over 1000 small
shops for selling newspapers and cigarettes, has closed its
operations after the parliament banned private companies to
organise lottery games. (Duma, Capital) 
                                                                
                                                                
                                                                
                                                                
              

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