Until recently, Ginka and Slavcho Varbakovi, the infamous business couple from the southern city of Pazardzhik, who won the tender for the Bulgarian business of the Czech State-owned power utility …

Duplication of social security numbers (known as unified civil number(s), EGN) is a rare case in Bulgaria, and when such case involves not two, but three persons, then it borders …

On Monday, February 19, around 12.30 pm, Stoyan Tonchev, reporter of Bivol, was brutally attacked by Hristo Shirokov, former bodyguard of notorious drug lord Dimitar “Mityo The Eyes” Zhelyazkov in …

Latvia is facing a serious political crisis following the detention of Ilmars Rimsevics, the longtime Governor of Latvijas Banka (the country’s central bank – editor’s note) and a member of …

The third largest Latvian bank, ABVL, has been heavily sanctioned by the regulators in Washington DC due to its involvement in money laundering and other illicit activities connected to Russia, …

The Bulgarian government has paid colossal and inflated amounts to several selected companies that are building the wire fence along the country’s border with Turkey. The contracts date from 2016. …

Alexei Belenky is wanted by Interpol in order to face charges for misuse of public procurement in the amount of millions of euros from tenders of the Ukrainian railways. He …

The UK government will use its “full force” to crackdown on foreign criminals and corrupt politicians as new Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) come into effect this week. UWOs gives the …

At first sight, the two news that came from Bulgaria and Russia on January 26, 2018, have no connection at all, unless one tracks the history of their main protagonists …

Anatoly Potapov, Ambassador in Sofia from 2004 to 2008, and his wife Tatyana have received Bulgarian citizenship “on merit”. Potapov has a common business for import of Russian vodka with …