Dimitar Karanashev, father-in-law, and Zoya Karanasheva, sister-in-law, of Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture Dessislava Taneva, have absorbed through companies and as individuals nearly BGN 1 million in agricultural subsidies in 2018…
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The new data on the Rural Development Program (RDP), released and published by the Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture (SFA), abounds with duplicates, omissions and hidden projects for nearly BGN 200…
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Bulgarian Party Leader’s Sister-in-Law Applies for EU Money for 2 Snowmobiles and 2 ATVs
Gülten Küçük, sister-in-law of Mustafa Karadayi, leader of the party mostly representing the Bulgarian Muslim minority – Movement for Rights and Freedoms, (DPS), has also built a guesthouse near Karadayi’s…
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Villa “Annie” in the village of Velika on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast is financed by BGN 186,830 under the European Union (EU) Rural Development Program (RDP). The beneficiary…
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Bulgarian Deputy Minister Uses ‘Guest House’ Built with EU Money as Own Vacation Home
Alexander Manolev, former Deputy Minister of Tourism and current Deputy Minister of Economy, owns a land plot on which a guesthouse has been built. The house is funded with BGN…
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NGO Convicted of Treasure Hunting Receives EU Funds to Rewrite Laws in Its Favor
The government of Bulgaria has given nearly BGN 90,000 from the European Union (EU) “Good Governance” Program to the “Bulgarian National Federation of Metal Detection”, whose members regularly face the…
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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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Ex-Auditor’s Confessions Reveal: Government Pressure and Vicious Practices in Bulgarian ‘Audit of European Union Funds’ Executive Agency
The former auditor at the “Audit of European Union Funds” Executive Agency (EAECA), Daniela Lazova, reveals in front of Bivol’s camera loopholes in the system for controlling the spending of…
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FIBANKInvestigationsLeadingThe "Bad Apples" Banks
Investigative reporters from three countries expose grand robbery affair
Stolen Millions from Romania Have Returned to Bulgaria
An offshore bank with a Hungarian owner has helped to launder the millions of euro stolen from Romania. This is the reason why accounts of Bulgarian private lender FIB were…