From December 3 to December 5, all regional directors of the Bulgarian Social Assistance Agency (SAA) and those responsible for public procurement gather at the four-star Spa Hotel Olympus in…
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Bulgarian National Security Agency’s Own Probe Confirms Ties between its Deputy Director and Notorious Attorney
The Deputy Director of Bulgaria’s National Security Agency (DANS) Nedyalko Nedyalkov is a close relative of Dimitar Sabev, a former collaborator and agent with the codename “Assen” of the Communist…
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‘Venezuelan Laundromat’ – Russian Oil and Bulgarian Intelligence Officers, Part I
Attorney Tsvetan Tsanev, to whose name the account at Investbank has been registered, the same account which has been used to funnel tens of millions of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.,…
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Ignoring facts about serious corruption offenses, idling, delaying pre-trial proceedings, allowing irreversible destruction of evidence – such is the outcome of the actions of the Ministry of Interior (in particular…
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Ten months after the revelation that Bulgaria is not ready for the Schengen visa system...
Bulgarian Foreign Ministry Places Secret Order for Cisco Routers
The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is finally dealing with the hardware for the National Visa Center, which should ensure unimpeded issuance of Schengen visas. The May 17 public…
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Judge: “Secret Services Are Not Controlled by Prime Minister; They Are Controlled by Delyan”
A year and a half after the mass protests against the appointment of controversial lawmaker and media mogul Delyan Peevski as head of the State Agency for National Security (DANS)…
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Lawyer Has Access to Information from National Security Agency: They Are Probing “Petya”; There Are 20 Judges in “Worms” Case
A phone call from late journalist Dimitar Tsonev to Vladimira Yaneva while she spoke with Rumyana Chenalova and attorney Momchil Mondeshki provides an accurate date and time of the conversation…
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Firsthand revelations about uncontrolled snooping in Bulgaria
Top Bulgarian Politicians Are Massively Snooping and This Is How They Deal Blows
Judge Vladimira Yaneva is making shocking revelations about the unlimited and arbitrary wiretapping by the “services” in the next portion of recordings of her conversations with her colleague Rumyana Chenalova…
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Part 2; Money is poured in loans granted to oligarchs and connected companies
BNB Admits Existence of “Lethal” Reports on FIB. They Were Secret.
There are two supervisory reports on First Investment Bank, from 2012 and 2015. BNB admits this fact in a response to questions sent by Bivol. The reports have been prepared…
