The Balkanleaks platform for anonymous sharing recently received the integral text (in Bulgarian – editor’s note) of an interim version of the report drafted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences …

The Vienna-based company with Bulgarian participation KVZ Digital Ltd. regularly blocks YouTube videos on grounds of copyright infringement. However, investigative reporting outlets, are among the blocked as well. They don’t …

Over the years, Bivol has investigated in detail several schemes for criminal abuse of European funds under the European Union Rural Development Program (see here and here). One of the …

On the day when the cryptocurrency bitcoin broke through the USD 10,000 mark, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry refused to explain how it is managing the 213,519 bitcoins seized under the …

The political talk show of well-known Bulgarian journalist Luba Kulezic was suspended last week from the program lineup of Bulgarian International Television (BiT) and her contract was terminated prematurely. BiT’s …

Over a month after Bivol exposed a dangerous organized crime group (OCG), acting in the northwestern Bulgarian city of Vratsa, involved in property and financial fraud, drug trafficking and thrashings …

The joint investigation by Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) “Making a Killing”, revealing a weapon delivery pipeline for over USD 2 …

Bivol received an email with a letter from citizens that had been harmed by the bankruptcy of Corpbank (Corporate Commercial Bank, CCB). It describes with specific facts and entities a …

The Bulgarian representative to the Board of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), who was tangled in the “Azerbaijani Laundromat”, has been removed from the decision-making process for …