Bulgarian retiree Tsvetanka Evstatieva has admitted to Swiss investigators that brothers Anri and Mancho Kovachevi from the northwestern Bulgarian city of Vratsa have used her as a “mule” to transport …
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InvestigationsLeading
The Interior Ministry is ignoring Swiss authorities’ reports. Brothers Anri and Mancho Kovachevi have not even been questioned.
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American citizens alert about yet another environmental crime; Bulgarian institutions keep silent
Thugs Destroy Bulgarian Black Sea Dunes
Instead of protected dunes, there is a huge sand wall on Nessebar’s “South Beach” on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The wall also blocks the access to the beach. This …
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InvestigationsLeading
Police Officer’s Mother-in-Law Steals Property; Son-in-Law Obstructs Investigation
A Sofia policeman is systematically harassed because he has sent to court the “mother-in-law” of his direct supervisor. For several months, the Sofia Directorate of the Interior Ministry (SDVR) and …
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Interview with Anastasia Kirilenko
Juergen Roth: Putin Is KGB Product and Works with Criminal Groups When He Needs It
Prominent investigative journalist Juergen Roth died in Germany at the age of 72, after a long illness. From the 1970s until his death, he never stopped publishing books on corruption, …
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InvestigationsLeading
The names of 50,000 probed individuals and of hundreds of agents and officers of the Communist Secret Services have been kept undisclosed for years
Files Commission “Curtain Is Lifted” But Not Quite
“The curtain is lifted”, announces on its homepage the site of the so-called Files Commission in charge of investigating the Communist-era secret services records. There you can also find a …
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After a signal by Bivol, the access to the server was suspended. The National Security Agency (DANS) must establish whether there was a national security breakthrough.
Education Ministry’s New Platform “Open and Safe School” Displayed Personal Data of 1.2 Million Bulgarian Children
An alert by one of our readers led to the suspension of a serious leak from a server of the Ministry of Education. Bivol conducted a check and established that …
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InvestigationsLeading
70,000 in ten years; 32,000 in the last year
Boom of Residence Permits of Russian Nationals in Bulgaria
About 70,000 Russian citizens can stay in Bulgaria without visas, with nearly 30,000 of them entitled to permanent residence, while the rest have long-term residence cards of up to one …
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The family's property wealth grew after Ivette Zhablyanova was state servant, heading the Operational Program "Competitiveness" at the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy and Energy (MIEE)
Wife of Socialist Lawmaker Dismissed from Government Job Because of Conflict of Interest
“The Best Man Gate model distorts political democracy in Bulgaria and influences election results at all levels,” the MP from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Valery Zhablyanov said recently, revealing …
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BokovaInvestigationsLeading
In violation of UN and UNESCO rules...
Irina Bokova Registered Private Company in UNESCO-Owned Apartment in Paris
According to the official website of the French Commercial Court Registry Agency – INFOGREFFE, the French company BOKOVA IRINA MITREV GUEORGIEVA was established in January 2016. The company cannot be …
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To the attention of the Interior Minister and the Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry
Bulgarian Youth Brutally Beaten because of Narco-Channel Revelations
Shortly after Bivol published an investigation into a cocaine channel from South America to Europe, witness Iliyan Ivanov was brutally beaten. At the end of July, retired Bulgarian national Tsvetanka …




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