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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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
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Investigator Boyko Atanassov had been advised and urged by a colleague from the Prosecutor’s Office to take unpaid leave for at least six months, until the “lion changes its den”, …
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Alexei Belenky, who has been granted Bulgarian citizenship under suspicious circumstances, is prosecuted for public procurement abuses
Bulgaria Shelters Ex-Lukoil Boss Wanted by Ukraine’s Anticorruption Prosecutors
Alexei Belenky is wanted by Interpol in order to face charges for misuse of public procurement in the amount of millions of euros from tenders of the Ukrainian railways. He …
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Empire Strikes Back: “Special Unit” Launches Disciplinary Action against Investigator Boyko Atanassov
A disciplinary action has been launched in December 2017 against Boyko Atanassov, the well-known whistleblower of corrupt practices at the Prosecutor’s Office on the grounds of assertions he made during …
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Threats against Maria Dimitorvoa, journalist from Zov News, were commonplace vulgarities and do not warrant pre-trial proceedings. A prosecutor from the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in the Bulgarian northwestern city if Vratsa …
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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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The accounts of the US Embassy in Sofia in FIBANK (also known as First Investment Bank, Fibank or FIB) are closed. The new service bank is DSK. This transpires from …
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Equipment for the project to build a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the Bulgarian town of Belene, for which the country’s National Electric Company (NEC) paid with a State loan …
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When Bubble Bursts, Prosecutor General Will Be Held Accountable
The investigations by Bivol into the draining of First Investment Bank (FIB) were fully confirmed by the prosecution. Therefore, it is more than scandalous that it saw no grounds for …
