Two police officers who had been bribing other officers were arrested in an overnight operation on November 17 2010, Bulgarian television station bTV said.
The operation was carried out by the Interior Ministry and the Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime (CDCOC), in co-operation with the State Agency for National Security, Internal Security Section and the Sofia City Prosecutors' Office.
The operation was carried out in the Sofia borough of Hadji Dimitar. The two arrested were described as "corrupt police officers" who bribed other police officers in order to obtain "sensitive information," the report said.
One of those taken into custody is a serving officer in the Migration Police, and previously was a CDCOC officer.
His alleged accomplice is a serving officer in Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (SANS).
According to the report, the first officer paid $500 to a policeman in the Interior Ministry for classified information.
Allegedly, the two men would "purchase" sensitive operational data for active criminal groups dealing with counterfeit money and credit cards. During the search, the police found $4000 in cash and several memory sticks packed with "data".
The authorities were tipped off, and the two officers were placed under surveillance over the course of three months.
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