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Sofia. We expect to detain the kidnappers of Evelin Banev’s daughter, prosecutor Asya Petrova told journalists, cited by FOCUS News Agency.
According to her the Prosecutor’s Office was working hard in the past almost two months, gathering evidence and working out a leading theory about the kidnapping. According to the evidence collected so far the crime was not committed by one person, but the prosecutor refused to say whether it was an organized criminal group similar to a previous one dubbed The Impudent. The whole information about Lara’s kidnapping is an investigative secret, including the information whether a ransom was paid, said the prosecutor, refusing to answer the question whether the handing of the ransom had been controlled.
The girl is in good physical condition. Psychologists worked with her immediately after her mother took her. She has not been questioned so far, said Asya Petrova.
She added that some time ago the prosecutor supervising the case had travelled to Italy to speak with Evelin Banev, but his testimony could not be related with Lara’s kidnapping.
Let us work and collect more evidence and then I will speak. Be patient. Until the investigation is over, we cannot rule out a theory, said the prosecutor.
She also refused to say whether vehicles equipped for wiretapping had been used in the investigation.
Vanina NEDKOVA

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Sofia. The Prosecutor’s Office is working on a leading theory about the kidnapping of Lara, but right now I cannot reveal it, prosecutor Asya Petrova told journalists, cited by FOCUS News Agency.
Petrova refused to specify whether the theory was related with the girl’s father Evelin Banev, a.k.a. Brendo.
The prosecutor added that from the time when the 10-year-old girl was kidnapped 50 days ago till her release the Prosecutor’s Office was working hard with all other institutions. Lara has not been questioned yet. Evelin Banev, a.k.a. Brendo, was interrogated, but he did not give any information that could be connected with the kidnapping.
Vanina NEDKOVA

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Sofia. The kidnapped 10-year-old daughter of one of Bulgaria's alleged cocaine-trafficking lords, Evelin "Brendo" Banev has been released after 47 days in captivity, police said Monday, cited by AFP reported.
Lara Baneva was left at a parking lot in the capital around 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) Sunday and walked to a nearby police station, the interior ministry said.
The girl was in good physical condition and was put under psychological care, it added.
State BNR radio reported that a ransom of 500,000 euros ($653,000) was paid for her release, but the information was not officially confirmed.
According to private bTV television the kidnappers had initially demanded 2.0 million leva (1.0 million euros, $1.3 million) from the Banev family.
Lara Baneva was kidnapped on March 5 in the posh Boyana neighbourhood on Sofia's outskirts while being driven to school.
Witness reports said three masked men had opened fire on the car, wounding the driver and abducting her.
The case was the first high-profile kidnapping of such a young child in Bulgaria.
The girl's father, a 48-year-old former wrestler, was sentenced by a Sofia court on February 15 to seven and a half years in jail for laundering drug-dealing profits worth almost two million euros ($2.6 million).
The police operation against him and his accomplices was called "Cocaine Kingpins."
Banev was subsequently extradited to Italy, where he is now standing trial for allegedly trafficking 40 tonnes of cocaine from Latin America to Europe for the 'Ndrangheta mafia between 2004 and 2007.
Lara Baneva's kidnapping was the first in Bulgaria since 2009, when police broke up a nine-member gang nicknamed "The Bold" that carried out over a dozen abductions for ransom in 2008 and 2009.

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Sofia. The kidnapped daughter of Evelin Banev, a.k.a. Brendo, has been released, Bulgarian National Radio reported.
10-year-old Lara was freed by her kidnappers at around 10:00 p.m. local on Sunday. The police keep on working on the case and are searching for a grey VW Golf car. On the Friday evening the vehicle stopped close to a state lottery office in Buxton boulevard in the capital Sofia, some 50 meters away from the sixth police station. The girl got off the car and the vehicle set off in the direction of Sofia’s ring road. The girl went to the police station and the police called her mother Monika Baneva and the Chief Directorate for Fight with Organized Crime. Minutes later the area was cordoned off. Later the mother took her child to their family home in Pushkin boulevard in Sofia. The family and the Interior Ministry refused to comment. Despite that, Lara was seen going past one of the windows of her house, as the blinds were not completely down.
Lara Baneva was kidnapped on 5 March 2013, while going to school. Then her kidnappers shot one of her bodyguards.

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Sofia. “Daughter of Evelin Banev, aka Bendo, has not been found yet,” outgoing Minister of Interior Affairs, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, said at a press conference organised to present a report on the work done by the Interior Ministry within the mandate of the government of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) (2009-2013), FOCUS News Agency reporter informed.
“My colleagues are working very hard and intensively since the moment the crime took place six days ago,” Tsvetanov remarked.
“The moment we obtain information, we will announce it - of course only if such a move would not hamper the investigation,” the ourgoing minister remarked.

AFP: Abductors free 10-year-old daughter of Bulgaria 'cocaine kingpin'
Sofia. The kidnapped 10-year-old daughter of one of Bulgaria's alleged cocaine-trafficking lords, Evelin "Brendo" Banev has been released after 47 days in captivity, police said Monday, cited by AFP reported.

Bulgarian traffic police to receive 120 tablets
Sofia. Bulgarian traffic police are to receive the first group of 120 tablets, announced the press center of the Interior Ministry.

10-year-old Lara Baneva found on territory of sixth police station in Sofia: ministry
Sofia. Lara Baneva, who was kidnapped on 5 March 2013, is already with her family, announced the press center of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry.

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