Just around the Christmas holiday, a Libyan tanker, anchored in the Burgas Bay on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, has been approached by a border police patrol cutter. These have …
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GP Gate: Pernik Court Rules: Detention of Bivol journalist Dimitar Stoyanov Is Illegal
Two panels of the Administrative Court in the Bulgarian western city of Pernik ruled that the detention orders for Bivol’s journalist Dimitar Stoyanov and the person accompanying him had been …
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The Ministry of Interior and the Prosecutor's Office keep silent; Bivol has operational information on a corrupt scheme aiming at a more lenient measure of remand.
“Killer” Quietly Returns to Bulgaria
The wanted by Interpol Bulgarian citizen Martin “Dzhito” Georgiev has quietly returned to Bulgaria this week and is in custody. On Monday, the Special Court for Serious Organized Crime and …
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Insights by a former anti-mafia chief: “Everything is dominated by one thing – dough. You shell it out - everything is OK; you don’t shell it out - nothing is OK.”
Ex Anti-Mafia Cop: I Was Very Close to Murdered Businessman, We Were Friends for 30 Years
Stanimir Florov, former Chief of the Main Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (GDBOB) admits that he has been a friend for 30 years and very close to the murdered businessman …
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Bulgarian Interior Ministry and Prosecutor’s Office “Classify” Bitcoins Worth BGN 4 Billion
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 …
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The Interior Ministry is ignoring Swiss authorities’ reports. Brothers Anri and Mancho Kovachevi have not even been questioned.
Detained in Switzerland Bulgarian ‘Mule’ Names Ringleaders
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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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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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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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 …
