At the beginning of August 2018, Bulgarian MEP Emil Radev (ruling party Citizens of European Development of Bulgaria, GERB/European People’s Party, EPP), together with arms dealer Nikolai Gigov and Dimitar…
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OpenLux: Top Constitutional Court Judge’s Son in Posession of €0,6 mln. in Luxembourg
Lyubomir Konstantinov Penchev is the owner of a company in Luxembourg which is in possession of assets worth BGN 1.2 million. The joint-stock company with the name of Promobelle S.A.…
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Seven Bulgarian Construction Companies Involved in TurkStream 2 to Be Sued by Prosecutor’s Office, Forced to Return Funds
Seven Bulgarian construction companies, which brought their heavy equipment to the TurkStream 2 gas pipeline construction sites, are being investigated by the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office and have been ordered…
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Russian citizen Evgeny Chupov, about whom Bivol wrote at the end of December 2020, has finally been granted political asylum in Bulgaria. This emerged on January 5, 2021, when the…
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Ten-year anniversary Bivol turned ten in 2020. Over these ten years our media withstood very serious trials and trepidations because of its independent policy and courageous investigations. They reveal mainly…
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Poor quality Chinese respiratory masks from the manufacturer Ryzur have been distributed to teachers in the German province of Baden-Württemberg, SPIEGEL wrote. According to an investigation by the renown German…
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The European Commission (EC) has called for inspections and investigations of a number of projects of the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy under the European Union’s (EU) Operational Program “Innovations and…
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Evgeny Sergeevich Chupov, a 41-year-old English teacher and civil activist from Russia, has been trying to obtain political asylum in Bulgaria for almost a year and a half. Chupov is…
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Bivol’s team conducted several very successful investigations in 2020, including the draining of the Studena Dam, the scandalous useless water pipeline for the western city of Pernik, the “miracle cure”…
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Uncovering the Clients of Cyberespionage Firm Circles
Running in Circles
Five years ago, Bivol exposed the operations in Bulgaria of Circle, a surveillance company that eavesdrops on calls, texts and phone locations. The firm has registered in Bulgaria as a…
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Lower Salaries for Bulgarian Workers among 151 Violations at TurkStream 2 Construction Sites
Information obtained by the Civil Association “Bulgaria United with One Goal” (BOETS, meaning fighter in Bulgria) and by the site for investigative journalism “Bivol” about numerous violations of labor standards…
