With their revelations about corruption in Bulgaria, Atanas Tchobanov and his site Bivol (“the Buffalo”) get in the way. To the point that the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office has asked the…
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Company of Top Witness in Legal Case Finances Apartment Purchased by Prosecutor’s Life Partner
A company of Alexander Vaklin and Mario Krakovski has financed the residence where the life partner of Prosecutor General hopeful Ivan Geshev has bought an apartment at a price far…
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Radiаna Abdulova, investigator at the Sofia Investigative Services (SIS), told Bivol that she had been part of a “retaliatory squad” to investigate politicians and senior officials. Two years ago, her…
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Bulgaria’s Anti-Corruption Body, Prosecution Close Their Eyes to ‘Loans for Passports’ Granted by Private Lender
The Specialized Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) and the Commission for Combating Corruption and the withdrawal of illegally acquired property (KPKONPI) (sic) have been passing on a file on a complaint by…
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How is it possible for a 60-square-meter building on paper to grow up to 140 square meters before being sold to Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov? The Peshtera Municipality rejected with…
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Interview of Bivol publisher Asen Yordanov for Frognews
Assen Yordanov: What Is Happening to Me Is Called Tyranny
The Prosecutor’s Office and the Interior Ministry keep secret the name of the public prosecutor from the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of Cassations, who is investigating me over a fake signal…
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According to an announcement by the press office of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of Cassations, the latter has launched a probe on grounds of media reports about a guesthouse built…
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Bulgarian Policewoman Who Botched Investigation into Arms Dealer’s Attempted Murder with “Novichok” Swiftly Becomes Prosecutor Together with Her Husband
In July 2018, three new junior prosecutors, Ivelina Kosseva, Mirela Vassileva and Lachezar Ivanov, took office in the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora. Ivanov and Vassileva are husband and wife…
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How Ivan Danov became Delyan Peevski’s scapegoat
Paris Court Rejects Claim against Journalists by “Phony Unemployed” Bulgarian Minister and Confirms He Collected Unemployment Benefits Illegally
On June 28, 2018, the Paris District Court (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris) issued a ruling with which it acquitted journalists and producers of French TV M6 and Bivol’s…