An interesting business network intertwining family and party connections has been woven in Bulgaria’s historical town of Kotel. Relatives of Mayor Kosta Karanashev and municipal officials of the ruling party…
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Part I
Small Town ‘Gerbonomics” – Relatives, Nepotism and Syphoning of EU Funds
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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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Scandalous Video from Bulgaria’s Advisory Council on Agriculture Reveals Serious Abuses of EU Scheme
https://youtu.be/EhpvUR4K8FE “I suggest that you stick to saying that there is no such fraud and everything is fine because otherwise, they will stop this (funding) for us. In the end,…
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Bulgarian Prosecution, Fund Agriculture Conceal EU Fund Abuses by Owner of SUV that Killed Popular Journalist
The mother of Christian Nikolov, the young man who high on drugs crashed on Easter a large SUV into the car of popular Bulgarian journalist Milen Tsvetkov, killing him on…
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The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office probes into guesthouses financed with European money do not examine at all whether the guesthouses are used for accommodations of guests or for private purposes. This…
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The daughter of the babysitter of the former Deputy Minister, Alexander Manolev, rears cattle alone in the Pirin Mountain and receives European subsidies for this – about BGN 50,000 a…
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Important figures from the ruling party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) and the party largely representing the Bulgarian Muslim minority, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), who are…
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The Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture (SFA) has found violations in the scandalous guesthouses program worth nearly BGN 38 million, but it refuses to say which specific projects are involved and…
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The owner of “Retro Museum Varna” Tsvetan Atanassov told Bivol how a businessman from the town of Peshtera had tried to sell him a new Mercedes, bought under a European…