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Bulgaria\u2019s Energy and Water Regulation Commission (KEVR) has asked Ginka Varbakova, the buyer of the Bulgarian assets of Czech electric power utility (CEZ) and her mother Teodora Paytakova whether it should make public, under the Access to Public Information Act (APIA), a fake EUR 200 million guarantee issued by Italian fraudsters. According to KEVR, this information is not of overriding public interest.<\/p>\n

This emerges from a letter in response to Bivol’s request under the APIA to obtain access to the documents for the issuance of a license for electric power production to \u201cReal States\u201d, a company owned by Teodora Paytakova, represented by Ginka Varbakova.<\/p>\n

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The letter with which the KEVR asks the Varbakovi family whether to provide documents damning to them<\/p><\/div>\n

An investigation by Bivol established<\/a> that the loans and guarantees provided by \u201cReal States\u201d to obtain a license for electricity production from a photovoltaic park near the Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik are of highly dubious origin. The company claims to have received a first-rate bank guarantee from the British firm DEANFIELD SOLUTIONS for EUR 200 million. DEANFIELD proved to be a shell firm of Italian fraudsters, one of whom had been wanted by the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n

In addition, Ginka Varbakova has claimed before KEVR that she would take a loan of EUR 14 million from the Austrian company \u201cPetrolinks Handels GmbH\u201d for the construction of the solar park. This company is associated with \u201cBulmarket-DM\u201d, the company whose tanks exploded near the village of Hitrino causing fatalities and material damage, and with the nephew of Petko Sertov, a former Head of Bulgaria\u2019s National Security Agency (DANS). The accounting reports of Petrolinks Handels do not show such financial possibilities.<\/p>\n

Bivol requested from KEVR access to documents related to DEANFIELD SOLUTIONS and Petrolinks Handels, which are described in KEVR’s public decision<\/a> to grant a license. Our initial journalistic inquiry was met with a refusal, and then we filed a request under the APIA.<\/p>\n

Instead of a response, a letter was received from KEVR, in which the Commission asks permission from the Varbakovi family to allow access to this information. The letter, signed by Vladko Vladimirov, a member of KEVR, refers to a section of the APIA that requires third parties to be consulted if the information relates to them.<\/p>\n

However, the protection of trade secrets of third parties and the request for consent only apply in the absence of overriding public interest. Article 31 paragraph 5 of the APIA explicitly states that “the consent of the third party is not necessary in the cases where they are an entity with commitments and the information related thereto is public information within the meaning of this law and when there is an overriding public interest in its disclosure<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

It is unclear why KEVR has not asked the same from the fictitious British bank DEANFIELD, as well as Petrolinks Handels, which has already changed its name. They should also grant their consent according to the Commission’s interpretation of the APIA.<\/p>\n

However, the wording of the letter makes it clear that the Commission, run by the former lawmaker from the right-wing party, Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) Ivan Ivanov, takes Ginka’s side against society. Moreover, in the presence of public information and strong evidence that \u201cReal States\u201d has obtained a license based on a fake bank guarantee, KEVP should have referred the matter to the prosecution, which has not been done to date.<\/p>\n

What is the firm that has issued a guarantee for EUR 200 million to Ginka Varbakova?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DEANFIELD SOLUTIONS is a mailbox, shell company registered in the United Kingdom. It had been closed<\/a> due to insolvency in 2013. But the liquidation procedures, and especially the collection of unpaid by the last director,\u00a0Sergio\u00a0Pecoraro, <\/strong>taxes, have lasted for years, according to data from the British Trade Register.<\/p>\n

It seems that Pecoraro continues to use DEANFIELD\u2019s name to present himself as an investment broker and attract investors through fraud. A stung\u00a0American from Kansas<\/a>\u00a0has even registered a\u00a0special website<\/a>\u00a0to warn people not to send money to Pecoraro and his company.<\/p>\n

One of DEANFIELD’s previous directors<\/a> is Roberto Pontiggia<\/strong>, an Italian with a Swiss address. He is an international fraudster\u00a0wanted<\/a>\u00a0by the Bulgarian authorities with a European arrest warrant issued on June 12, 2017.<\/p>\n

In August 2017, the Italians arrested Pontiggia, but the Genoa court denied the request for extradition to Bulgaria. The reason is that the Italian authorities are also prosecuting Pontiggia on tax evasion charges. At the end of 2017, he was sentenced to three years in prison and a confiscation of EUR 2 million.<\/p>\n

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The procedures, however, were conducted in gross violation of the law.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Investigations"","block_context":{"text":"Investigations","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/investigations-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA-%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-2023-03-30-%D0%B2-17.40.52.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA-%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-2023-03-30-%D0%B2-17.40.52.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA-%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-2023-03-30-%D0%B2-17.40.52.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA-%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-2023-03-30-%D0%B2-17.40.52.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA-%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-2023-03-30-%D0%B2-17.40.52.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA-%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-2023-03-30-%D0%B2-17.40.52.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":38304,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/organized-crime-past-lurks-behind-present-sale-of-cez-business-in-bulgaria.html","url_meta":{"origin":39490,"position":2},"title":"Organized Crime Past Lurks Behind Sale of CEZ Business in Bulgaria","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"23 February 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Duplication of social security numbers (known as unified civil number(s), EGN) is a rare case in Bulgaria, and when such case involves not two, but three persons, then it borders on a mystery. This is precisely the case of one of the managers of the company Inercom Group, which was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CEZ"","block_context":{"text":"CEZ","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/b-files-en\/cez-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/paytakova-300x255.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":45346,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-prosecution-launders-fraud-for-eur-200-m-with-expired-statute-of-limitations.html","url_meta":{"origin":39490,"position":3},"title":"Bulgarian Prosecution \u2018Launders\u2019 Fraud for EUR 200 M with Expired Statute of Limitations","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"5 February 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The prominent businesswoman Ginka Varbakova has indeed presented to the Bulgarian Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) a fake bank guarantee for EUR 200 million to obtain a license for the \u201cReal States\u201d company to produce electricity. However, the guarantee is a private document and the statute of limitations for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Leading"","block_context":{"text":"Leading","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/leading-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ginka-maya.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ginka-maya.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ginka-maya.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ginka-maya.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ginka-maya.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ginka-maya.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43663,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarias-inercom-negotiates-with-global-financial-institutions-to-fund-cez-takeover.html","url_meta":{"origin":39490,"position":4},"title":"Bulgaria\u2019s Inercom Negotiates with “Global Financial Institutions” to Fund CEZ Takeover","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"21 November 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cGlobal financial institutions\u201d, not represented in Bulgaria, are in an advanced stage of negotiations with Inercom to finance the takeover of the Bulgarian assets of the Czech electric power utility CEZ,\u201d Nayden Raychinov from the \u201cBratanov and Spassov\u201d law office, the legal counsel in the deal, tells Bivol. 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