The name of Bulgarian national Alexander Mirtchev is found in the leaked files of the US Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN. It is included in a suspicious…
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FinCEN Files: Vice President of Atlantic Council Linked to Deripaska, Nazarbayev’s Financial Schemes
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Russian laundromat companies spin billions, bank in Bulgaria’s Investbank
FinCEN files: Proxy of Bulgaria’s Ruling Party and Controversial Bulgarian Mogul’s Frontman Emerges from ‘Magnitsky’ Scheme
A company of arms trader Dobrin Ivanov received large sums from an offshore company linked to the money laundering scheme uncovered by Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the FinCEN Files and…
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FinCEN Files: State-controlled Bulgarian Bank Processes Transactions Linked to Gangsters and Arms Trafficking for Islamic State
An offshore company with an account in Piraeus Bank paid USD 31 million to another offshore company with an account in the State-controlled Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB). The first offshore…
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Small Town ‘Gerbonomics” – Relatives, Nepotism and Syphoning of EU Funds
An interesting business network intertwining family and party connections has been woven in Bulgaria’s historical town of Kotel. Relatives of Mayor Kosta Karanashev and municipal officials of the ruling party…
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Bulgarian Prosecution ‘Discovers’ Illegal Construction in Politician’s Seraglio
An inspection by the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor’s Office found illegal construction in a state property – a 200-meter pier with a breakwater and a two-story building on a state beach…
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An outrageous document signed by Atije Alieva-Veli, the former long-time Deputy Director of the State Fund Agriculture (SFA), the body in charge of distributing European Union (EU) funds for agriculture,…
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Bulgarian Ex-Deputy Minister’s ‘Guesthouse’ Mortgaged against Large Loan, No Attachment by KPKONPI
The villa in the southern Bulgarian resort town of Sandanski, built with European Union (EU) money by the former Deputy Minister of Economy Alexander Manolev, had been mortgaged through a…
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Young Fan of Bulgaria’s Ruling Party Wants to Own Unwanted Shares of FC Levski
A young Bulgarian man, Ventsislav Manchovski, 20, from the northwestern village of Gorna Kremena has requested ownership of the shares of FC Levski Sofia, one of the oldest and most…
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Bulgarian Government Hides Information about ‘Curing Dates’ but Distributes Them to the Poor
For the second week in a row, Bulgaria’s interdepartmental commission, tasked with determining the quantities of dates shipped from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), failed to report the exact quantities…
