May 29 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange blue-chips SOFIX index ended a five-day winning run after car battery maker Monbat [BUL:5MB] saw its share price drop 9.55% on Friday.
On Thursday, the Bulgarian prosecutor's office said it has carried out searches of over 40 addresses in the country in relation to an investigation of a scheme for illegal import of waste, primarily from Italy. According to public broadcaster BNT, the searches included the offices of Monbat, as well as the residence of its majority owners - Plamen Bobokov and Atanas Bobokov.
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The SOFIX, which tracks 15 stocks, fell 0.23% to 452.71 points on Friday.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, rose 0.11% to 96.59 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, decreased 0.20% to 466.24 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, increased 0.23% to 133.45 points.
Total regulated market trading turnover amounted was much higher than usual, and amounted to 406,000 levs ($231,000/208,000 euro) on Friday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)