{"id":27715,"date":"2015-08-14T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=27715"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:22:13","slug":"bulgartabac-had-new-offshore-owner-since-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgartabac-had-new-offshore-owner-since-january.html","title":{"rendered":"Bulgartabac Had New Offshore Owner since January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As byproduct of its large-scale investigation &#8220;Bulgartabac Mafia&#8221; (see <a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgartabac-mafia-part-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgartabac-mafia-ii.html\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a>) Bivol found out that from January 2015 one of the offshore owners of the Austrian company BT INVEST GmbH has changed.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein offshore LIVERO ESTABLISHMENT has sold its 50% share in BT INVEST to another Lichtenstein company STIGA ANSTALT. This is what the Austrian Trade Registry currently shows.<\/p>\n<p>Since January 10, 2015, the offshore companies STIGA ANSTALT and WOODFORD ESTABLISHMENT are shareholders in the company, which holds 80% of the shares of the tobacco holding.<\/p>\n<p>This fact remains unknown to the public and institutions for more than half a year. The Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) answered to an inquiry of Bivol that <strong>it had no information about a change in ownership of the second largest public company in Bulgaria<\/strong>. The last time the CPC has issued an opinion on the ownership of Bulgartabac was in <a href=\"http:\/\/reg.cpc.bg\/Decision.aspx?DecID=300040950\" target=\"_blank\">June 2014<\/a>, explained the press office of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Supervision Commission never answered the questions of Bivol, which shows a complete lack of interest in #WHO owns Bulgartabac, despite the legal obligation to declare change in ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that such large public company as Bulgartabac withheld from the State and the minority shareholders the change in ownership is indicative of <strong>how untouchable the real owner feels<\/strong>. And also how arrogant he is.<\/p>\n<p>STIGA ANSTALT is represented by the same law firm of Andreas Shurti that played a key role in the backstage privatization of Bulgartabac.<\/p>\n<p>Read about Shurti\u2019s connections with the main players in the deal for Bulgartabac with &#8220;black money&#8221; behind the State\u2019s back and about who they are in the forthcoming third part of the investigation &#8220;Bulgartabac Mafia&#8221; &#8211; the documentary dissection of the model # WHO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As byproduct of its large-scale investigation &#8220;Bulgartabac Mafia&#8221; (see Part 1 and Part 2) Bivol found out that from January 2015 one of the offshore owners of the Austrian company&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","kia_subtitle":"Regulators do not know. 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Because it became clear on March 21 that last week the Dubai offshore TGI Middle East FZE has bought the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comments&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comments","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/comments-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-17.39.49.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-17.39.49.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-17.39.49.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-12-at-17.39.49.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":30475,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/peevski-is-leaving-bulgartabac-is-leaving-partnership-with-bulgarias-powerful-people-remains.html","url_meta":{"origin":27715,"position":2},"title":"Peevski Is Leaving, Bulgartabac Is Leaving&#8230; Partnership with Bulgaria\u2019s Powerful People Remains","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"20 April 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprisingly, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov appeared in the role of spokesman for the notorious MP (and former Head of the State Agency for National Security, DANS) Delyan Peevski. Borisov said in a live TV interview that \"Peevski is leaving Bulgaria\". He failed to tell us where Peevski is going and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bulgartabac&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bulgartabac","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/b-files-en\/bulgartabac"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/BT3-names-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/BT3-names-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/BT3-names-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/BT3-names-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/BT3-names-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/BT3-names-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27616,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgartabac-mafia-part-1.html","url_meta":{"origin":27715,"position":3},"title":"Bulgartabac Mafia I","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"1 August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Much has been written about the privatization of the Bulgarian tobacco holding. After several unsuccessful attempts in the past two decades that failed because of political interference by the party largely representing the Muslim minority in Bulgaria \u2013 Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) - the majority stake in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Buddha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Buddha","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/b-files-en\/b-files-buddha-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/schurti-taskapan.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/schurti-taskapan.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/schurti-taskapan.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/schurti-taskapan.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/schurti-taskapan.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":33566,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/how-much-does-peevski-weigh-bgn-1-5-billion.html","url_meta":{"origin":27715,"position":4},"title":"How Much Does Peevski Weigh? BGN 1.5 Billion!","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"11 April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A deleted and forgotten presentation from the site of a Dubai company reveals the real scale of the hidden empire \"Peevski\". According to the document, the company TGI Middle East FZE manages assets of over 700 million US dollars. They are distributed among several companies associated directly or indirectly with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bulgartabac&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bulgartabac","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/b-files-en\/bulgartabac"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bgbs-bulgartabac-1024x947.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bgbs-bulgartabac-1024x947.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bgbs-bulgartabac-1024x947.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bgbs-bulgartabac-1024x947.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27705,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgartabac-mafia-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":27715,"position":5},"title":"Bulgartabac Mafia II","author":"\u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"12 August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In the first part of the investigation \"Bulgartabac Mafia\", we published a key document (see here vtb-livero-belom-sedona) which shows how a deal was organized behind the State\u2019s back prior to the privatization of the tobacco holding. 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