Bulgaria’s Special Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against an organized crime group for particularly large-scale tax evasion, the Prosecution’s press center announced. The charges are related to the group …
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The company Alpha Media Group Ltd which controls the properties of the family of controversial Bulgarian lawmaker and media mogul Delyan Peevski has changed its offshore owner a year ago. …
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Controversial Lawmaker’s Best Man with Most Lucrative CCB Credit Card Interest Rate
Milcho Kiryakov, who is best man of the Deputy Chairman of the party largely representing the Muslim minority in Bulgaria (Movement for Right and Freedoms, DPS), Yordan Tsonev, (notorious with …
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Scamming Traders Launder Money through Bulgarian TBI Bank
Monsieur B. receives a call from Monsieur L., whom he does not know. Monsieur L. is polite, eloquent and has an intriguing proposal for fast and secure income from operations …
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Who Is Afraid of the Skeletons in the Safety Vault of Tsvetan Vasilev?
“This is the culmination of the transition period, discrediting the entire political class. He, Vasilev, knows everything about everyone…,” this is how Bulgarian media enthusiastically reported and commented on the …
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Bulgarian Finance Minister Justified Censorship Regarding First Investment Bank with the European Commission; the Latter Denied It
On Friday, in a response to a parliamentary question from independent MP Velizar Enchev regarding the censored part of the plan for the restructuring of First Investment Bank (FIB), Vladislav …
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Bulgarian Central Bank Provides Cover-up for Fraudulent Illegal Currency Exchange in the Heart of Sofia
The sign with currency exchange rates is not visible from the street. You enter the narrow office and your eyes are drawn to the first row, where the exchange rate …
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Putin’s Crony under Belgian Cover Took over Vivacom, Dunarit, Avionams and TV7
Bulgaria’s strategic telecom operator Vivacom is already owned by the company LIC33, abbreviation of Louvrier Investment Company, managed by Russian-Belgian businessman Pierre Louvrier (pictured with the “new Russian” Gerard Depardieu). …
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Former French Military Attaché with Embassy Address Will Control “Dunarit” and “Avionams”
Colonel Vladimir Mikoulinsky, a former military attaché of France to Bulgaria, is to be appointed procurator of the “Hedge Fund Investment” which holds a controlling stake in the Bulgarian military …



