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Businessman Alexei Petrov being escorted to a preliminary court hearing in Sofia last Friday (Photo: Mihail Kurshovski, Trud Daily)

Bulgaria's war on crime

When heavily-armed anti-terror police burst into Sofia's "Kama Sutra" striptease bar last Wednesday (10 February), they ordered everybody to lie on the ground.

The floor was instantly covered with nude female pole-dancers and their scared admirers. The former had a lurid story to tell about their side jobs as prostitutes and about hidden cameras recording sexual intercourse with clients in the bar's secret rooms.

Police dubbed the operation "Octopus" - after the popular Italian m...

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Businessman Alexei Petrov being escorted to a preliminary court hearing in Sofia last Friday (Photo: Mihail Kurshovski, Trud Daily)

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