site.btaDeputy Minister Gets Personal Security Detail after Threats over Border Lab Scandal

Deputy Agriculture Minister Ivan Hristanov has been assigned personal security detail after he received life threats following a row over the expulsion of a company that for ten years had a contract for lab tests at a busy checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. That transpired Tuesday when Prime Minister Kiril Petkov met with farmers in Sadovo, southern Bulgaria, where crops were severely damaged or destroyed by a hailstorm in late May.