The apartments and garages purchased by the Chairman of the Committee for Combatting Corruption and the withdrawal of illegally acquired property (KPKONPI) (sic) Plamen Georgiev and his wife in 2012 …
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Checks in the Property Register reveal additional senior Bulgarian officials as clients of the construction company Arteks who have acquired apartments at below-market prices. This became clear after Bivol processed …
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Second in Command in Bulgaria’s Ruling Party Launches Probe against Construction Company 4 Days before Purchasing Upscale Apartment at Low Price from It
Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Deputy Chairman of the ruling party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), leader of GERB’s parliamentary group and former Interior Minister had known of a serious case …
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UniCredit Grants Big Loan to Construction Company, Ex-CEO Acquires Cheap Upscale Apartment
The former Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of UniCredit Bulbank Levon Hampartzoumian also acquired a cheap apartment from the company Arteks in the “Videlina” (Dawn) building on “Tintyava” …
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Bulgarian Ruling Party Top Functionaries Acquire Posh but Cheap Apartments in Sofia
The company Arteks has sold apartments at questionably low prices not only to Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Deputy Chairman of the ruling party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) and former …
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Judges of the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) and their colleagues from the Sofia Appellate Court are obviously reluctant to comply with European law. This is clear from a decision of …
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Bulgarian National Security Agency’s Own Probe Confirms Ties between its Deputy Director and Notorious Attorney
The Deputy Director of Bulgaria’s National Security Agency (DANS) Nedyalko Nedyalkov is a close relative of Dimitar Sabev, a former collaborator and agent with the codename “Assen” of the Communist …
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NGO Convicted of Treasure Hunting Receives EU Funds to Rewrite Laws in Its Favor
The government of Bulgaria has given nearly BGN 90,000 from the European Union (EU) “Good Governance” Program to the “Bulgarian National Federation of Metal Detection”, whose members regularly face the …
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Prosecutor’s Office Does Not ‘Perceive’ Corruption in #RIAGate but Actively Hunts Source and Will Question Journalists of Bivol
As in other emblematic cases of leaked recordings of conversations between high-ranking officials, the Prosecutor’s Office is ignoring evidence of corruption and is searching only for the source of the …
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On February 22, 2019, at its general meeting, BESCO – the Bulgarian Startup Association – adopted a “Code of Honor”, announced lustration (limiting the participation of former communists, and especially …
