{"id":28220,"date":"2015-10-10T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=28220"},"modified":"2016-10-26T08:06:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T08:06:04","slug":"controlled-bulgarian-media-dirty-campaign-against-bivol-enters-new-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/controlled-bulgarian-media-dirty-campaign-against-bivol-enters-new-phase.html","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Dirty Campaign of Controlled Bulgarian Media against Bivol Enters New Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"

A camera crew of Bulgarian TV Channel 3<\/em> has popped-up this morning at the address in the Paris suburb where Bivol\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Atanas Tchobanov lives.<\/p>\n

The intruders introduced themselves to his wife as “colleagues”; asked to enter the apartment, questioned her whether it was “public housing” and photographed the building.<\/p>\n

Tchobanov is currently in Lillehammer, Norway, where he represents Bulgarian investigative journalism at the 2015 Global Investigative Journalism Conference that is hosting 850 investigative journalists from 120 countries. Tchobanov was invited by the organizers, while the other Bulgarian participant works for a media outlet controlled by Peevski; has a past as agent of the Communist Secret Services and no one knows whom exactly is he representing. In this case, the important detail is that Atanas Tchobanov\u2019s absence from his home has been made public<\/a> in advance by Bivol.<\/p>\n

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Upon his return, Tchobanov will file on Monday with the French Prosecutor\u2019s Office a harassment complaint against the vested with power person Delyan Peevski, former Director of the Bulgarian National Security Agency (State Agency for National Security, DANS) current lawmaker, and now official owner of Channel 3<\/em>, and shareholder in the tobacco maker Bulgartabac. An investigation, which exposes with documented evidence Peevski\u2019s family in tax evasion in the amount of millions of euros in income of unknown origin, will be attached to the complaint.<\/p>\n

Why the media of #Who went into hysterical mode against Bivol?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In recent days, there is a frenzied smear campaign against Bivol, led by all media owned by Peevski, because of recent revelations on our site. Persons associated with the owners of First Investment Bank (FIB) have stolen 20 million euro from the food aid program for the poor in Romania. The money trail leads to Cyprus, where FIB has a branch. OLAF and the Romanian prosecutors are on their tracks (see here).<\/p>\n