Protests have erupted throughout Bulgaria over the last week after a political leader of an opposition party attempted to access a public beach and was stopped by national authorities who were protecting a nearby mansion of a retired politician. 

Bulgaria’s prosecution office said on Monday it will ask Spanish authorities to provide information about an alleged money laundering investigation that might link the country’s long-serving prime minister Boyko Borisov to assets in Spain worth roughly five million euro (US$5.4 million).