{"id":37486,"date":"2018-01-06T19:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=37486"},"modified":"2018-01-07T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T17:10:59","slug":"crime-group-ringleader-busted-speeding-while-high-on-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/crime-group-ringleader-busted-speeding-while-high-on-cocaine.html","title":{"rendered":"Crime Group Ringleader Busted Speeding while High on Cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anri Parvomayev Kovachev has been arrested on Friday, January 5, 2018, at 7 p.m. on the main road connecting the capital Sofia with the town of Mezdra after a race with \u0430 police patrol car. He has tested positive for cocaine and has spent the night in detention. A speedy pre-trial proceeding has been launched.<\/p>\n

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The news would not be anything special unless it did not involve one of the ringleaders of a criminal group in the Bulgarian northwestern city of Vratsa, dealing with drug trafficking, fraud, racketeering, arson, plots for the murder of the publisher of the Zov News<\/em><\/strong> site, and threats against journalists.<\/p>\n

The absurdity here is that there is evidence that this person has committed way more serious criminal offenses that can be proven through a number of documents and by witnesses, all published by Bivol in a series of investigations, but has been detained for a routine traffic violation.<\/p>\n

Cocaine Channel Organizer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Already in September 2017, Bivol<\/strong> wrote that Bulgarian retiree Tsvetanka Evstatieva has named before Swiss authorities brothers Anri and Mancho Kovachevi<\/strong> from Vratsa as organizers of a drug channel for cocaine trafficking (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The Swiss, in turn, have officially sent this information to their Bulgarian counterparts, only to be ignored by the Interior Ministry of and the Prosecutor’s Office. As they have done earlier, when Tsvetanka begged them to help her get back her apartment after falling victim of property fraud masterminded by the brothers.<\/p>\n

Her grandson, Iliyan, told us in a recorded video interview everything about the fraud and the criminal plot. Hours after Bivol\u2019s publication, the young man was brutally attacked and beate<\/a>n in broad daylight. The police did nothing and the perpetrators remain unknown. Eventually, Iliyan was forced to leave the country.<\/p>\n

A former member of the group, who was also recorded on camera<\/a>, told us about murder plans against our\u00a0Zov News<\/em>\u00a0colleagues. Against the backdrop of total media silence and cover-up for the mobsters, the information caused serious reactions abroad. Organizations such as Reporters Without Borders<\/strong> (here<\/a>) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE<\/strong> (here<\/a>) issued special statements addressed to the Bulgarian government. The scandal even ended on the agenda of the\u00a0Council of Europe<\/strong>\u00a0(here<\/a>) but it was again downplayed for the Bulgarian public.<\/p>\n

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Fraud, arson, racketeering, murder, and police cover-up<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former member and accomplice is Milko Atanassov Stoyanov. He revealed shocking details about the crime group \u2013 numerous crimes, racket, arson, and contract murders, among others. Stoyanov has described in writing and in detail his experience on dozens of pages that have been sent to Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov <\/strong>and the Chief of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP), Ivaylo Spiridonov<\/strong>. There, he also expresses his firm desire to surrender, be arrested, and become a protected witness.<\/p>\n

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A Page ot Milko Stoyanov’s handwritten claim in which he states that he wishes to become a protected witness.<\/p><\/div>\n

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