Dancing around crime, dirty cash and politics

Sofia’s streets are full of foreign exchange booths, one favoured money laundering method for the IRA, but officials deny Bulgaria is a safe haven for stolen cash, Caroline O’Doherty reports from Sofia.

SO you are in the IRA and you want to buy a bank, set up a financial institution or launder money. Do you go to Bulgaria?

The official word is that Bulgaria, through a combination of internal controls and international monitoring, is not the place to go.