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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Panama Papers:
Vassil Bozhkov acquired luxury property and jets through offshore companies
Vassil Bozhkov, “Bulgaria’s richest and most dangerous man” in the words of chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, owns a staggeringly expensive property in the heart of Paris, in a stately building…
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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…
