AUSTRALIAN has been found guilty by a Bulgarian court of terrorism – 4 Years Jail

AUSTRALIAN man John Zahariev has been found guilty by a Bulgarian court of terrorism offences.

The Sofia Special Criminal Court has found Zahariev, 21, guilty of training as a terrorist with the intention of carrying out a terrorist act.

He was ordered to spend four years in a Bulgarian jail — half the maximum eight-year term he had feared.

The former Catholic schoolboy, who attended Waverley College in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs but later converted to Islam, had strongly denied the charges.

But after a seven-month trial, he was last night convicted, and the court also ordered him to pay a fine amounting to $7800.

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