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…
Димитър Стоянов

Dimitar Stoyanov
Разследващ журналист, работил в БНР, бТВ, Нова Телевизия и АгроТВ. Носител на приза “Журналист на годината” за 2018 г. Носител на специалната награда George Weidenfeld за смела разследваща журналистика за 2019 г.
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Part I
Small Town ‘Gerbonomics” – Relatives, Nepotism and Syphoning of EU Funds
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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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Scandalous Video from Bulgaria’s Advisory Council on Agriculture Reveals Serious Abuses of EU Scheme
https://youtu.be/EhpvUR4K8FE “I suggest that you stick to saying that there is no such fraud and everything is fine because otherwise, they will stop this (funding) for us. In the end,…
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After more than a decade of membership in the European Union (EU), European projects in Bulgaria turned into financial mechanisms for the chosen few. Ordinary humans are not allowed in…
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The police had detained three people in the Bulgarian capital Sofia during special ops against a criminal group suspected of contract murders, Bulgarian media reported. One of these suspected murders…
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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…
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Against the backdrop of the state of emergency around COVID-19, a number of other serious social problems are currently sidelined. One of them is the recent blistering problem with the…
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Stanko Stankov, owner of the infamous company Bulmarket, whose train tanks exploded near the Bulgarian village of Hitrino, causing fatalities, injuries and material damage, has purchased life insurance policies for…
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Government’s Promises for Non-stop Construction of Water Pipeline for Pernik Turn Exaggerated
The government’s promises that construction works for the water pipeline to the western Bulgarian city of Pernik from the village of Malo Buchino would be carried out 24/7 turned out…