A contract for EUR 14 million with the company Petrolinks Handels GmbH had been presented by a firm of Ginka and Slavcho Varbakovi to the Bulgarian State Commission for Energy…
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Bulgarian energy watchdog had accepted as a guarantee a forged letter of guarantee for EUR 200 million from a company of an Italian national wanted for fraud
Company Associated with Well-known Names Gave 28 Million to Bulgarian Buyer of CEZ
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A solid sequence of public facts connects the people involved in the deal to sell the Bulgarian assets of Czech State-owned electric power utility, CEZ, with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.…
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CEZ is keeping the offer under wraps
Suspicious Macedonian Companies Linked to Bulgarian Energy Mogul and to Husband of Ex-Ukrainian PM Also Eyed CEZ
A Macedonian company, Alfa Energo, has sent a non-binding offer to the Czech State-owned electric power utility CEZ Group for its business in Bulgaria. It happened in early 2017, but…
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Bulgarian Public Radio’s Deleted Article: Censorship Attempt or Mysterious Technical Problem
An article on the site of the public radio BNR (Bulgarian National Radio), dating from 2013, suddenly disappeared two weeks ago, after an influential Facebook user reminded of it. Bivol…
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Nikola Molchan also appears with another identity - Nikola Vladimirov Molchanesky
Bulgarian-Czech Citizen and 3 Times Murder Suspect Is Mediator in CEZ-Inercom Deal
Czech citizen Nikola Molchan, suspected of murder in 2009, is negotiating on behalf of Ginka Verbakova and Inercom for the sale of the Bulgarian assets of the Czech State-owned electric…
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On Monday, March 19, Bivol sent questions to the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee tasked to examine all the facts and circumstances regarding the privatization and the planned sale of the Czech…
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Concealed from Bulgarian Public: “Bad Apple” Fibank and Dubai connection in CEZ deal
“When I opened what the Czech Prime Minister had sent me, what did I see: Russian-Georgian offshores, Russian banks, Bulgarian ones, and those banks that for some reason have had…
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Since September 2017, Varbakova is co-owner in a company whose main business is listed as "cryptocurrencies"
Ginka’s “Gencoin” Is No Joke
An article by Bivol’s editor-in-chief Atanas Tchobanov, titled “Fundamentals of the Ginconomics,” was published in the 24th-anniversary edition of the satirical newspaper Prass-Press. It mocks the cryptocurrency gencoin, introduced by…
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Mysterious Bulgarian CEZ Buyer Linked to Czech Billionaire, Bulgarian Energy Mogul
On June 6, 2017, the company “Inercom Investments” of Ginka Varbakova, which is the sole owner of the capital of “Inercom Group”, had decided to officially sell 50% of the…
