Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev will remain in custody , following a ruling by the Sofia City Court, which reviewed his request for release from detention on Friday evening. The hearing began shortly before 7 p.m., although it had initially been scheduled for the early afternoon. The delay came as the session was arranged on short notice, only a day after municipal councillors Nikolay Stefanov and Yordan Kateliev were placed under house arrest and a new request was filed to reexamine Kotsev ’s