The deadline for the company “Venis Marine” to voluntarily leave the “Ropotamo” natural reserve is expiring and after that the Regional Inspectorate of the Environment and Waters (RIEW) in Burgas …

As byproduct of its large-scale investigation “Bulgartabac Mafia” (see Part 1 and Part 2) Bivol found out that from January 2015 one of the offshore owners of the Austrian company …

In the first part of the investigation “Bulgartabac Mafia”, we published a key document (see here vtb-livero-belom-sedona) which shows how a deal was organized behind the State’s back prior to …

Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov is vacationing this year in a lovely cottage built on the dunes of Shabla on the northern Black Sea Coast. The land that is cultivated …

Bulgaria’s Zemen municipality is very active in the use of European Union funds. This is what people from the State Fund Agriculture (SFA) told us when we asked about the …

The value of public tenders often dramatically exceeds their market value, but because of the commissions, the end quality is extremely low. Much of the public procurement is a deal …

The Regional State National Construction Control (RDNCC) in Burgas needed two weeks to produce the orders to cancel the construction permits for camping “South,” announced by the Minister of Regional …

Much has been written about the privatization of the Bulgarian tobacco holding. After several unsuccessful attempts in the past two decades that failed because of political interference by the party …

Ivaylo Parvanov, son of former Bulgarian two-term President, Georgi Parvanov AKA Gotse (his codename as agent of the former Communist State Security – editor’s note)) and Mariana Dobreva, sister of …

As Bulgarians say: New BNB Governor – new luck. Despite the premonition that nothing will change due to the fact that the old team was kept intact, Bivol reiterated the …