Beirut blast shipowner arrested in Bulgaria five years after port tragedy

Bulgarian authorities have arrested Igor Grechushkin, the Russian owner of the cargo ship tied to the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that caused the catastrophic Beirut port explosion in August 2020, Lebanese judicial officials confirmed yesterday. Grechushkin, who also holds Cypriot citizenship, was detained at Sofia’s Vasil Levski airport last week after arriving on a …