Momchil Mondeshki is the “third person” in the recorded and leaked scandalous conversations between former judges Vladimira Yaneva and Rumyana Chenalova known as “Yaneva Gate”. In one of these…
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With help from “bad apple” private enforcement agent
Companies Connected to Controversial Lawyer Acquire Properties Used as Collateral in Collapsed Bank
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Prosecution: Chief of Bulgaria’s Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) Committed Crime against Monetary and Credit System
A probe of the prosecution into the credit cards with unrealistically high limits, declared by the Head of Bulgaria’s FSC, Stoyan Mavrodiev, ended without pre-trial proceedings because no evidence of…
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“Attacking” UN with international public resource
Bulgarian UNESCO Chief Uses the Organization’s Budget, Human Resources and Privileges for Her Lobbying to Lead UN
Famous French intellectuals and artists such as Pierre Bergé and Jean-Michel Jarre have publicly announced their support for the candidacy of Bulgarian UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova for the post…
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Prosecution and media are silent about "summit" held before the shooting in Sunny Beach
Institutions Officially Admit that Senior Policeman and Senior Magistrate Attended a Party in Organized Crime Boss’ Restaurant
Two weeks ago, Bivol was the only one to exclusively reveal and publish scandalous facts, exposing connections between influential people in the high echelons of the judiciary and the executive…
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The draining of public resources through “bad apples” banks is Bulgaria’s "cancer"
#WHO Is Gone, But Left Minimum 280 million in Debt
Two years passed since the collapse of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), preceded by a conflict between its majority shareholder, banker Tsvetan Vasilev, and lawmaker-investigator-former chief of the National Security Agency…
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Four days prior to the shooting in Sunny Beach...
Senior Magistrates and Interior Ministry’s Chief Secretary Attended Party at Black Sea Restaurant Owned by Thug’s Boss
Just days before the “narco” battle in Bulgaria’s largest summer resort “Sunny Beach” between the gangs of Dimitar “Mityo The Eyes” Zhelyazkov and Bozhidar “Bozho The Goat” Kuzmanov, a private…
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The EC letter that does not exist, according to the ruling party
Brussels Is Stopping Agri Payments Until Weaknesses Are Removed
The European Commission does not believe the Bulgarian Certification Body for the Rural Development Program (RDP) and will not propose the accounts of the Paying Agency, the State Fund Agriculture…
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Journalism data reveals:
State Fund Agriculture Is Hiding Guesthouses for over 114 Million Levs
Almost half of the guesthouses built with European money under the Rural Development Program (RDP) are missing from official data of the State Fund Agriculture (SFA). They are concentrated primarily…
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Reporters Without Borders Joined Appeal to Reinstate Emblematic Bulgarian Journalist at State Radio
The Paris-based international human rights organization Reporters Without Borders joined the appeal the appeal of journalists, academics and public figures who insists that emblematic journalist Lily Marinkova be reinstated as…