Vassil Bozhkov, “Bulgaria’s richest and most dangerous man” in the words of chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, owns a staggeringly expensive property in the heart of Paris, in a stately building…
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Panama Papers:
Vassil Bozhkov acquired luxury property and jets through offshore companies
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OpenLux: Top Constitutional Court Judge’s Son in Posession of €0,6 mln. in Luxembourg
Lyubomir Konstantinov Penchev is the owner of a company in Luxembourg which is in possession of assets worth BGN 1.2 million. The joint-stock company with the name of Promobelle S.A.…
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Uncovering the Clients of Cyberespionage Firm Circles
Running in Circles
Five years ago, Bivol exposed the operations in Bulgaria of Circle, a surveillance company that eavesdrops on calls, texts and phone locations. The firm has registered in Bulgaria as a…
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An unprecedented influx of refugees from the Middle East is observed along the Bulgarian border with Turkey. According to Bivol’s own information, entire refugee camps in Turkey have been released…
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Irish MEP Clare Daly arrived in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort town of Pomorie with a purpose – to get acquainted with a long-standing problem of Irish citizens who bought homes…
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FinCEN Files: Vice President of Atlantic Council Linked to Deripaska, Nazarbayev’s Financial Schemes
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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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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Part Two
Son-in-Law of Bulgarian Small Town Mayor Absorbs EU Subsidies after Being Sanctioned for Abuses
Georgi Nukov, who is the live-in boyfriend of the daughter of Kosta Karanashev, Mayor of Bulgaria’s town of Kotel, keeps submitting winning bids for European Union (EU) projects and absorbing…
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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…
