PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - March 22
SOFIA, March 22 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- Bulgaria's government will provide 15 million levs ($9.48 million) for increases to the salaries of prison staff, Justice Minister Tsetska Tsacheva said. The additional funds allocated should serve to increase the basic monthly salaries and equalise the amounts paid for specific service activities with those in the interior ministry (Trud, 24 Chasa, Standart, Monitor)
-- Some 11.5 million passengers, an increase of 18 percent on an annual baisi, were transported by regular and charter flights to and from Bulgaria in 2017, Svetoslav Stanulov, Chairman of the Association of Bulgarian Airlines, said (Trud, Standart)
-- Bulgarian authorities have smashed an international gang suspected of human trafficking, the interior ministry said. Some 18 people, including Bulgarian, Turkish and Syrian citizens, were detained and seven of them were charged (Trud, 24 Chasa, Standart, Monitor) ($1 = 1.5815 leva)
