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One day ahead of the protest rally of workers of Bulgarian tobacco manufacturer Bulgartabac, Bivol\u2019s editorial office received information on employees from the company\u2019s factory in the city of Blagoevgrad preparing to stage a march in the capital Sofia on December 6. Employees of the holding, whose ownership remains unknown, but it is believed that it belongs to controversial businessman, media mogul and lawmaker, Delyan Peevski, had been “prompted” to protest via a circular disseminated among them and which Bivol has seen. It contains “talking points” such as “malicious media and political attack” against Bulgartabac, organized by the political party “Yes Bulgaria” and Ivo Prokopiev, publisher of the critical of Peevski dailies Dnevnik<\/em> and Capital<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So far, several protests have been staged by laid-off workers from the Bulgartabac factory in Sofia, which closed doors after the holding announced that it would cease exports to the Middle East due to reputational problems after revelations of its massive smuggling of cigarettes to Iraq and Turkey. The former workers urged the government to tell them #WHO is the owner of Bulgartabac that threw them out on the street but were greeted with silence and were ignored by mainstream media.<\/p>\n

“Counter-protest” because of a report by the Turkish authorities sent to Interpol<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason for this counter-protest is obviously the insistent recent questions by “Yes Bulgaria” and Dnevnik<\/em> and Capital<\/em> to Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov and the Interior Ministry to find out what would be the reaction of Bulgarian institutions to the official report<\/a> of the Turkish anti-organized crime police unit KOM, which claims that the company Bulgartabac operating in Bulgaria is \u201cbecoming the source of cigarette smuggling in our country\u201d.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Valentin Radev and the Prosecutor General keep pretending that these scandalous data do not affect the Bulgarian side, although the Turkish authorities clearly identify several international law enforcement organizations to which they have sent a report on the smuggling of Bulgarian cigarettes: Interpol, the Southeastern European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC) and the British anti-smuggling services.<\/p>\n

The KOM report for 2014<\/a> also claimed that Bulgarian production is flooding the contraband cigarette market in Turkey, but Bulgartabac’s name was not mentioned officially. On the other hand, publications in close to the government Turkish media did not spare that information<\/a>. It was also announced that Delyan Peevsky and Ahmed Dogan, (Honorary Lifetime Chairman of Peevski\u2019s party Movement for Rights and Freedom, largely representing Bulgarian Muslims \u2013 editor\u2019s note) have been declared “persona non grata” in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Bivol has been investigating for several years now Bulgartabac\u2019s cigarette smuggling channels to the Middle East, which existed even when Bulgartabac was state-owned, before its privatization. A key figure in these channels is the Iraqi Salam Quadir (or Quader) Faraj AKA Farouk or \u201cMullah Salam\u201d.<\/p>\n

The problem is that Bulgartabac does not want to trade with official representatives but rather prefers smugglers such as Farouk. Thus, this significant Bulgarian company is sinking deeper and deeper in the shadowy economy and it becoming more and more doomed. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been repeatedly informed of these criminal acts, but has not reacted in any way.<\/p>\n

The topic \u201cBulgartabac\u201d in Bivol:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Letter to the US Embassy Exposes “Bulgartabac” Scheme, Featuring Boyko Borisov, Ahmed Dogan and Delyan Peevski<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Bulgartabac Mafia I<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Bulgartabac Mafia II<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Bulgartabac Had New Offshore Owner since January<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Four Prosecutor’s Offices Likely to Unravel the Model WHO<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Turkey Exposes Bulgartabac as Major Smuggler<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Bulgartabac Has Refused to Sell Cigarettes to “Official Importers” from Asia and Africa<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Letter from former Bulgartabac bosses, giving distribution rights to smuggler Salam Faraj<\/p><\/div>\n

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