{"id":29111,"date":"2016-01-08T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T08:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/?p=29111"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T10:55:24","slug":"invader-of-ropotamo-natural-reserve-got-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/invader-of-ropotamo-natural-reserve-got-eliminated.html","title":{"rendered":"Invader of Ropotamo Natural Reserve Was “Eliminated”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veselin Stoimenov, nicknamed \u201cFat Vesco\u201d<\/strong>, was shot dead in Sofia overnight. Seven shell casings from an automatic weapon were found near his body and the victim has been executed with a shot to the head in the style of the best gangland traditions. Stoimenov is known as the \u201cliquidator of VIS-2\u201d, the latter alleged to be one of the two main organized crime groups in Bulgaria in the 1990s. After the death of the VIS-2 boss, Georgi Iliev, \u201cFat Vesko\u201d became the owner of numerous properties and facilities of the group. He is also close to drug lord Hristoforos Amanatidis AKA Taki, who is a fugitive abroad.<\/p>\n

For three years now, Bivol has been monitoring the activities in the natural reserve “Ropotamo” of one of Stoimenov\u2019s companies – “Venis Marine”. In 2013, our publication exposed illegal construction in the reserve, carried out by “Venis Marine”. The construction was stopped and the Ministry of Environment and Waters (MEW) later terminated the company\u2019s contract for boat tours along the lower reaches of the Ropotamo River. However, subsequent developments have definitely shown that instead of protecting the public good,<\/p>\n

the State works in the interest of the thugs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the terminated contract, Stoimenov\u2019s people continued to provide boat tours both in 2014 and 2015, relying on an absurd civil lawsuit against MEW that is still pending.<\/p>\n

The company has lost all administrative legal cases that it filed, including at the Supreme Administrative Court (VAS). The Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Waters (RIEW) requested twice the assistance of two different regional governors – “the red” (socialist), Pavel Marinov, and “the blue” (right-wing), Vulcho Cholakov – to forcefully make the boats leave the State reserve. Both times it received a refusal.<\/p>\n

Thus, the company continued to unperturbably use the reserve, to provide boat tours for tourists and make money. The crowning of this absurdity is the fact that the State is not receiving any money in concession fees since there is no way to account for it because the service is illegal.<\/p>\n

Over the years Bivol regularly followed<\/a> and recalled that<\/p>\n

Saga of lawlessness<\/strong><\/p>\n

The contract with “Venis Marine” for boat tours along the lower reaches of the Ropotamo was signed on October 24, 2012, by the former head of the Regional Inspectorate for Environment and Waters in Burgas,\u00a0Boycho Georgiev, who became infamous in the scandal known as\u00a0\u201cDunes Gate\u201d\u00a0<\/a>for the speedy issuing of construction permits in protected areas.<\/p>\n

After the scandal with the illegal construction erupted, the contract of the company was terminated. In a letter with reference number 6177 from August 12, 2013, the Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Waters in Burgas informed the company that due to the illegal construction, it was unilaterally terminating the agreement for the boats that was signed on October 24, 2012, and ordered \u201cVenis Marine\u201d to vacate in full the premises which are exclusive State property.<\/p>\n

The then Regional Governor of Burgas,\u00a0Pavel Marinov<\/strong>, from the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, (exposed by Bivol<\/a>\u00a0as a secret partner and person close to senior Russian officials in the defense sector)\u00a0refused assistance\u00a0<\/a>for reinstating order in the State reserve.<\/p>\n

In early 2014, Georgiev\u2019s procedure for selecting \u201cVenis Marine\u201d was declared unlawful by the Burgas Administrative Court. The decision was upheld by the Supreme Administrative Court, with Decision 4494 \/ April 22, 2015, which is final; cannot be appealed<\/strong>\u00a0and clearly stated that no private company has the right to use in any way the protected area because the mere bid has been conducted by Boycho Georgiev under an unlawful procedure.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the final rule, the Director of RIEW Burgas issued Order \u2116 64 from April 29, 2015 to apply a Coercive Administrative Measure (PAM) to instantly stop all tourist services \u201cRopotamo Boat Tours\u201d in the reserve \u201cRopotamo\u201d performed by \u201cVenis Marine\u201d LTD. The company was invited to vacate the \u201cRopotamo\u201d reserve and all contracted facilities.<\/p>\n

But it failed to do so because it enjoys<\/p>\n

the State\u2019s cover-up for lawlessness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the orders of the Regional Inspectorate, in 2015 \u201cVenis Marine\u201d moved again to the pier with its catamarans and resumed the illegal service for which the State gets nothing. RIEWs attempted once again to evict the company from the reserve. And once again, before the start of the season, the Regional Governor of Burgas refused to cooperate<\/strong> with the environmental inspectorate.<\/p>\n

Only now it was not the left-wing Pavel Marinov, but the right-wing Vulcho Cholakov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On July 28, 2015, VAS confirmed the preliminary execution of the order of the Head of RIEW Burgas for the immediate suspension of all activities related to the tourist service \u201cRopotamo Boat Tours\u201d in the natural reserve \u201cRopotamo\u201d provided by \u201cVenis Marine\u201d LTD. This was done by order \u2116 9075 from July 27, 2015, in the administrative case \u2116 7876\/2015 on the docket of the Supreme Administrative Court.<\/p>\n

On the same day, MEW\u2019s press office sent a press release asking the company to vacate the exclusive State property in the \u201cRopotamo\u201d reserve and all facilities it has illegally occupied.<\/p>\n

The order to vacate was grounded on the need to protect vital State and public interests and to not allow this activity without a legal basis for it, as MEW claimed then.<\/p>\n

However, once again the state and the Regional Governor Vulcho Cholakov refused to cooperate in the protection of vital state and public interests.<\/p>\n

In practice, the State had helped a thug company to illegally occupy “Ropotamo”; unperturbedly finish the 2015 season and collect several hundred thousand levs. We are yet to see if history will repeat itself in 2016, after the company\u2019s boss Veselin Stoimenov was murdered.<\/p>\n

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