Bulgarian State Sold Quaint Beach for Pocket Change
During the inspection of beaches along the northern Black Sea Coast, it was found that the beach at Taukliman Bay (the Birds Bay also known as Nanevska Tuzla) is a private property and there is no access to it, except by water, Bulgarian Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova said a week ago. The truth is […]
Bulgaria Lied to EC about Illegal Wind Generators on Cape Kaliakra
The six illegal wind farms, specifically mentioned in the European Court of Justice’s judgment on Kaliakra, have been subsidized by the Bulgarian State with BGN hundreds of millions since their creation until today. This money has been paid by all electricity consumers at higher preferential prices, which is a State aid scheme. However, Bulgaria has […]
Bulgaria’s Cape Kaliakra: Small Gardens and Big Sharks
The borders of the Kaliakra protected area will be reviewed “orchard by orchard”, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said Tuesday at a meeting at the Council of Ministers, convened after the scandal with the Ministry of Environment and Waters’ (MOEWs) order for a construction ban in the cape Kaliakra area. At the same time, the […]
Notorious People Pop Up in Black Sea Construction Ban Scandal
The ban on construction in the coastal Bulgarian region Dobrudzha, imposed by the Ministry of Environment and Waters (MOEWs) but canceled by Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, affects the worst and the most the family of former lawmaker Zhivko Martinov from Borisov’s ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party. Martinov, AKA “The Sausage” […]
Notorious Lawmaker’s Family Has Loans from Collapsed Bank
The prosecutor in the case of collapsed Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), Ivan Geshev, and the MP from the party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Yordan “The Fraud” Tsonev repeatedly spoke in public recently, stating and stressing that DPS lawmaker and controversial businessman Delyan Peevski was not connected with CCB through loans and had not […]
Bulgarian Prosecutor General Visits Russia. He Was Never Granted US Visa?
Bulgarian Prosecutor General, Sotir Tsatsarov, was recently on a visit to share experiences with his Russian counterpart Yuri Chaika. We can only imagine the knowledge that Tsatsarov can acquire and implement in Bulgaria from the Russian Prosecutor’s Office known for his track record and the sinister practice of being a pillar for Stalin and his […]
Supreme Court Convicts Notorious Bulgarian Lawyer of Tax Evasion
Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) said in a final rule that scandalous lawyer Momchil Mondeshki owes nearly BGN 52,000 in taxes and social security contributions to the National Revenue Agency (NRA) for the period 2008-2014. The decision also rejected Mondeshki’s defense theory based on a 900,000-euro fake deal with a Seychelles offshore and his grandfather. […]
CIA Hackers Study Achievements of Legendary Bulgarian Georgi Guninski
A vulnerability in the AIX systems, published for the first time by the Bulgarian IT expert, Georgi Guninski, is part of the arsenal of the hackers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States. This transpires from documents published by Wikileaks, revealing how the CIA uses a wide range of malicious software to […]
Bulgarian Caretaker Government Sacrifices National “Pirin” Park on National Holiday
The Bulgarian caretaker government took advantage of March 3, the country’s national holiday, and the weekend following it, to sacrifice the National “Pirin” Park. With two surprising decrees on the eve of the holiday, the caretaker Minister of Environment and Waters, Irina Kostova, made a serious step towards building up the mountain, the Coalition “For […]
New Absurdity by State Fund Agriculture, Director Denies Information from Transparency Committee
Believe it or not, there is such a committee in Bulgaria’s State Fund Agriculture (SFA) – Expert Committee to Ensure Transparency (ECTET). It turns out, however, that everything related to its decisions is classified as “internal business information”. This emerges from the refusal by the SFA to fulfill a request by Bivol under the Access […]
Wiener Zeitung: Land in Oligarch’s Hand
Extensive interview with Assen Yordanov, founder and Director of Bivol, with the prestigious Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung on: – Mafia reality in Bulgaria – Bivol’s mission – Cost of defending the right to free and quality journalism in the most corrupt and undemocratic country in Europe. The interview was taken and published before the general […]
AFP: Bulgaria – Powerless to Curb Corruption
“We are in the same boat as Romania, but they have rowers”, Lozan Panov, a senior Bulgarian magistrate, is lucid but pessimistic about his country’s ability to contain the corruption that impedes the development of the poorest member of the European Union. While the Romanians staged mass protest rallies in February to defend the progress […]
PES “First Lady” Lost Court Battle against Bivol in “Grant Gate” Case
Bivol’s publications about the European grant received by the company of Monika Stanisheva, wife of the leader of the Party of European Socialists (PES), Sergei Stanishev, have adhered to the rules of bona fide journalistic investigation and good journalistic practice. Our website has posted verified information of significant public interest about a public figure, who […]
Censuring Journalism Awards in Bulgaria
Last week Bivol became once again the victim of an attack by Bulgaria’s backstage rule. This time we are not being sued in Court, attacked physically or by slander in Bulgarian mainstream media’s front pages. This time the strike came from a Foundation declaring itself the pillar of the free, independent and courageous investigative journalism. […]
Environment Ministry Invited Cypriot Owner of “Yulen” to Meeting about Ski Resort
The Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Waters (MEW) has sent during the past week an official invitation to the personal and business address of Cypriot citizen Georgios Georgiou to engage in the public discussion about the fate of the ski resort Bansko, Minister Ivelina Vasileva told Bivol. According to official documents in the Cypriot trade […]
Former Judge Implicates Notorious Lawyer in Car Accident Involving Court President
Attorney Momchil Mondeshki has told me that he has had something to do with the Supreme Court of Cassations (SCC) President, Lozan Panov, being hit by a car, former judge Rumyana Chenalova, a participant in the conversations from #Yaneva Gate, told Bivol in a recent interview. We approached Chenalova for comment on the latest recordings, […]
WHO Concealed Damning Belene NPP Facts to Give 1.2 Billion to Russians? Part II
An expert report, demonstrating the unfitness of the first unit of the “Belene” Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), built by Russia’s Atomstroyexport (ACE), has been provided to the Minister of Energy in the former government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. It gives a serious argument to the Bulgarian side in the arbitration case of ACE against […]
WHO Concealed Damning Belene NPP Evidence to Give 1.2 Billion to Russians?
An inspection of the construction of the first unit of Bulgaria’s Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has shown deep cracks and complete unfitness for completion. This means that the bids with which Russian Atomstroyexport won the tender for Belene NPP have been simply impossible to implement and Bulgaria’s National Electric Company (NEC) has been misguided […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister* Personally Imposes Censorship against Bivol
Dimitar Dimitrov is a political scientist, who now works as an ambassador of free knowledge for Wikimedia to the European Union. As such, his main priorities are copyright, access to information and protection of the right to privacy. In Bulgaria, he is a member of the Executive Board of the Greens since 2014, a spokesman […]
Rumyana Chenalova: Mondeshki’s Interview is Message of Loyalty to Prime Minister, Prosecutor General and Powerful Lawmaker
Controversial lawmaker and media mogul, Delyan Peevski, as an employer of lawyer Momchil Mondeshki, has ordered him to sort out the mess that he has gotten into with the recordings from #Yaneva Gate, says now-former judge Rumiana Chenalova in an interview with Bivol. With his absurd confession in the interview with a newspaper controlled by […]
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