Bulgaria’s Energy and Water Regulation Commission (KEVR) has asked Ginka Varbakova, the buyer of the Bulgarian assets of Czech electric power utility (CEZ) and her mother Teodora Paytakova whether it …
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The Commission does not consider the details of a EUR 200 billion fraud scheme to be of public interest
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Suspicious transactions and loans of the son of a lawmaker from Bulgaria’s ruling party raise too many questions
Successful Young Son from Bulgaria’s Town of Elin Pelin
Pavel Pavlov, son of the former Mayor of the Bulgarian town of Elin Pelin, Galya Georgieva, has solid local property acquisitions. However, the origin of funds raises issues that had …
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The group of Mancho and Anri Kovachevi from Vratsa is associated with pro-Kremlin Bulgarian and Serbian ultranationalists
Busted Bulgarian Gangsters from Vratsa Are Part of International Crime Network
Several protagonists in a series of Bivol investigations into an organized crime group (OCG) in Bulgaria’s northwestern city of Vratsa were arrested on April 17, 2018 in an operation of …
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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
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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The announcement that Bulgaria’s most prominent intellectual, Julia Kristeva, has been an agent of the communist-era secret services (State Security, DS) and the online publication of her file sparked a …
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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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Dimitar Gamishev has sold an indebted company to a professional strawman
Bulgarian Ruling Party Lawmaker Cheats Treasury with BGN 200,000 in Tax Evasion Scheme
Selling a company that is indebted to the budget to a destitute person should not be possible. At least this is what the spokesman of the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency …
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Documents from the Kivelidi case prove the Russian origin of the toxic substance
Novaya Gazeta: Novichok Has Been Already Used as Murder Weapon
Documents from the Kivelidi case refute the official version of the Kremlin that the Novichok nerve agent had not been developed in Russia and does not exist, Novaya Gazeta writes …
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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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