{"id":37643,"date":"2018-01-14T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg?p=37643"},"modified":"2018-01-15T23:44:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:44:57","slug":"ex-anti-mafia-cop-bullies-bulgarian-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/ex-anti-mafia-cop-bullies-bulgarian-journalist.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex Anti-Mafia Cop Bullies Bulgarian Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Threats and ugly intimidation, accompanied by obscene language used by the former Head of the Main Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (GDBOP), Stanimir Florov – this is what journalist Katya Ilieva had to endure immediately after participating in the TV talk show \u201cSlavi\u2019s Show<\/a>\u201d on January 10, 2018, during which she criticized the capacity of the authorities to investigate contract killings.<\/p>\n

She commented on the recent brazen, broad daylight murder in Sofia of Petar Hristov, a well-known businessman, close to former Interior Minister and second in command in the ruling party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), Tsvetan Tsvetanov, and to Florov, himself. It is believed that Hristov has provided significant help for the arrests of the members of the organized crime group \u201cThe Killers\u201d, but Ilieva explained that he has actually helped to neutralize another group, known as \u201cThe Impudent\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe brought a person with a criminal record to the Interior Ministry to tell what he knew about the group. This is it,\u201d is how she summed up the involvement of the murdered businessman.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Ilieva provided shocking facts about how no one defends witnesses and employees of the Interior Ministry who have helped to convict criminals in \u201cThe Killers\u201d case; to the contrary, these people have been dismissed during GERB\u2019s term in office, pressured and defamed in media friendly to the government.<\/p>\n

“On whom and what can we rely and how to believe that contract killings will be solved since they are indicative of the synergy between the mafia and the State?! That is the truth,” Ilieva concluded.<\/p>\n

Obviously, her words have seriously angered the ex-Head of the GDBOP, Stanimir Florov, who did not spare offensive and obscene descriptions of the journalist in a conversation that Bivol\u2019s Assen Yordanov, also a participant in the show, involuntary witnessed.<\/p>\n

From what the former police boss said, it became clear that he approves of the \u201cbaseball bat\u201d methods of the power for intimidating journalists. According to him, “someone could cook up a little case against Ilieva” to find out who the sources of our colleague are.<\/p>\n

Even more shocking is that, according to Florov, such “little cases” are decided through “you giving some money to someone around you to give money” to “weather the storm”, as he, himself, stated.<\/p>\n

We publish this part of the recording with the explicit consent of Katya Ilieva.<\/p>\n

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