Bulgaria Ratifies Two Council of Europe Criminal Cooperation Conventions

On June 2, 1993, Bulgaria ratified two Council of Europe Conventions on Criminal Cooperation: the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure, and Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime and the Convention for Protection of the Archeological Heritage. The ratification by Bulgaria of these two important criminal cooperation conventions indicates that with the end of the Cold War and the entry of Central and Eastern Europe into the Western European clubs, especially economic integration, international criminal cooperation is extending its network…[more]