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…
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Part I
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 Coast around Dogan Seraglio Illegally Buried under Concrete and then Built-up
An on-location inspection by Bivol found that concrete had been poured on the coastline on the northern side of Cape Chukalyata in Rosenets Park near the Black Sea city of…
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Article 18 of the Bulgarian Constitution and Article 12 of the Waterс Act stipulate that the seabed is а public state property and the State has sovereign rights. However, at…
