{"id":43004,"date":"2018-09-16T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=43004"},"modified":"2018-11-15T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:30:27","slug":"gp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/gp3.html","title":{"rendered":"#GPGate: Owner of Land and Building on 59A \u2018Cherni Vrah\u2019 Blvd Drains Lukoil through Property Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The offshore \u201cPI\u201d company owns the land and the building on 59A \u201cCherni Vrah\u201d Boulevard in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, which houses the offices of \u201cGP Group\u201d and numerous consultancy firms. However, \u201cPI\u201d is closely connected with, both, \u201cGP Group\u201d and Lukoil Bulgaria, spinning together suspicious property deals that cast doubt of a drain of Lukoil, reveals an investigation by Bivol into public entries in the Trade and Property registers.<\/p>\n

\u201cGP Group\u201d is not the owner but one of the tenants in the building on 59A \u201cCherni Vrah\u201d Boulevard, according to the company\u2019s special press release. In it, it also denies evidence, published by Bivol<\/a>, of consultants associated with it being involved in hefty corruption schemes with public procurement and theft of European Union (EU) funds.<\/p>\n

The company also denies removing and setting on fire documentation related to EU projects, though no such statement has ever been made. The documents are being removed from the building, which houses the connected consulting companies \u201cRila Consult\u201d, \u201cEuroprogramconsult\u201d, \u201cM Consult Finance\u201d, \u201cEU-Energy Project\u201d and \u201cLian Consult Services\u201d<\/strong>, among others.<\/p>\n

In the process of investigating this destruction of documents, Dimitar Stoyanov<\/strong> from Bivol and Attila Biro<\/strong> from our partner site, Rise Moldova, were detained by the police near the western Bulgarian town of Radomir<\/a>. They were handcuffed and released a few hours later after the Romanian Consul in Bulgaria intervened. This triggered an international scandal, indignation by human rights organizations<\/a>, publications in prestigious global media<\/a>, forcing Bulgarian mainstream media to pay attention to the corruption affair that had been previously ignored by them.<\/p>\n

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Valentin Zlatev (in the middle) denies any connection with \u201cGP Group\u201d; on the left is current Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov; on the right \u2013 former two-term President of Bulgaria, Georgi Parvanov<\/p><\/div>\n

Besides the \u201cGP Group\u201d press release, Bivol\u2019s editorial office received a right of reply from Lukoil Bulgaria on the occasion of the mention of its manager and Director General Valentin Zlatev<\/strong>. It firmly denies any connection of, both, Lukoil and Zlatev, with \u201cGP Group\u201d. Although it was not clear why Valentin Zlatev did not personally write to us but used the press service of the company, we publish the text<\/a> without any edits and changes under the heading “Right of Reply”.<\/p>\n

Real estate links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public data, however, show that the owner of the building on 59A \u201cCherni Vrah\u201d Boulevard and the land beneath it has had close business ties with, both, \u201cGP Group\u201d and Lukoil Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

The owner of the land and the building is the company \u201cPI\u201d, which has acquired it from Lukoil Bulgaria in 2008 against BGN 5,202,507. The Cypriot offshore “Rilletto Holding Limited” is currently behind \u201cPI\u201d, while earlier, until 2014, the company has been owned by \u201cBalkan Investment and Trade\u201d. The phone numbers and email addresses of \u201cGP\u201d and \u201cPI\u201d are absolutely identical – office@gpgroupbg.com.<\/p>\n

Both offshore companies are represented by the Montenegrin citizen Vladislav Popovic<\/strong>, who has business<\/a> in Bulgaria. His name can be also found in the Offshore Leaks<\/a> database as a company director. The secret of the offshore ownership is carefully concealed in Cypriot law firms and in the modest homes of unemployed Cypriots.<\/p>\n

What is out in the open, however, points to serious business relations with \u201cGP Group\u201d. Popovic’s proxy in the purchase and sale of the land and the building is Velizar Lyubenov Radev<\/a><\/strong>, who is co-owner of \u201cGP Stroy\u201d, together with one of the shareholders and director of \u201cGP Group\u201d – Georgi Vassilev.<\/p>\n

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Velizar Radev signs the contract for the sale of the shares in \u201cPI\u201d from one offshore to another<\/p><\/div>\n

The connection is not accidental as Radev is the manager of other companies in the \u201cGP Group\u201d and \u201cGP Story\u201d.<\/p>\n

Curiously (or naturally?), Radev is also co-owner in the company \u201cBulgaria Building\u201d, together with Boryana Shehtova<\/strong>, the wife of the alleged drug trafficker and underground boss Hristoforos \u201cTaki\u201d Amanatidis<\/strong>, as well as the manager of her company \u201cLyulin Property\u201d.<\/p>\n

The manager of \u201cPI\u201d, Vladimir Kirilov Pilchev<\/strong>, on his part, has business relations<\/a> with one of the owners of \u201cGP Group\u201d, Vladimir Georgiev Jitenski<\/strong>, in the company \u201cAgrohold Invest\u201d. “Agrohold” is also the company of Vasil Zlatev Kostov – the father of Lukoil’s boss Valentin Zlatev, but in the Trade Register there is no visible formal link between the two companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cPI\u201d earns millions from properties slated for Lukoil gas stations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Property Register shows that in a short period of time in 2008, \u201cPI\u201d has purchased numerous properties throughout the country, which then it has immediately sold to Lukoil Bulgaria for the construction of gas stations at hugely inflated prices. All these deals had occurred after \u201cPI\u201d paid Lukoil BGN 5 million for the building on 59A \u201cCherni Vrah\u201d Boulevard in March 2008.<\/p>\n

For example, a meadow near the town of Botevgrad, near Sofia, was acquired by \u201cPI\u201d on April 24, 2008 for BGN 110,000, and a month later, it was sold to Lukoil Bulgaria for BGN 838,000.<\/p>\n

In the village of Gorna Malina, also near Sofia, on December 5, 2008, the municipality sold to “PI” a meadow for BGN 180,000. On December 9, 2008, the same meadow was sold to Lukoil Bulgaria for BGN 1,448,534.<\/p>\n

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Gorna Malina municipality sells a property for a gas station for BGN 180,000<\/div><\/a>\"\"
Four days later, the property costs BGN 1.4 million and was sold to Lukoil<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n

Similar is the case in the town of Dryanovo, in central Bulgaria, where on July 18, 2008, the municipality sold to \u201cPI\u201d a property for BGN 90,000. Four days later, the same property was sold to Lukoil for BGN 1,186,473. This is also the most drastic difference in the price and probably a great damage to the municipal budget.<\/p>\n

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The municipality sells for BGN 90,000<\/div><\/a>\"\"
Four days later Lukoil pays over a million<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n

The same scenario is repeated in the cities of Dobrich and Plovdiv and in the towns of Kyustendil, Levski, Provadiya, Teteven, Troyan and Velingrad. In fact, Lukoil’s gas stations in these cities and towns have enriched the \u201centerprising\u201d \u201cPI\u201d and its offshore owners with tens of millions.<\/p>\n

Piece of the pie for Jitenski as well<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Kyustendil, Provadia and Teteven, the scheme is even more interesting, because there \u201cPI\u201d has acquired the properties from \u201cCampanella\u201d EOOD. At that time, the company has had as a sole owner one of the current owners of \u201cGP Group\u201d – Vladimir Jitenski. It is now transferred to an offshore.<\/p>\n

In Teteven, \u201cCampanella\u201d bought a meadow for BGN 329,308 on February 25, 2008. It sold it to \u201cPI\u201d for BGN 1,530,151 on February 29, 2008, and on March 10, 2008, the meadow was resold by \u201cPI\u201d to Lukoil Bulgaria for BGN 1,568,014.<\/p>\n

In Provadiya the \u201clucky winner\u201d S.M. received from \u201cCampanella\u201d BGN 713,408 for a meadow of 18 decares on April 1, 2008. On April 9, 2008, the property was sold for BGN 1,703,705 to \u201cPI\u201d and on April 25, 2008 Lukoil gave \u201cPI\u201d slightly more – BGN 1,786,032.<\/p>\n

In Kyustendil “Campanella” acquired a 4-decare meadow from private individuals for BGN 72,032 on April 4, 2008. On April 10, it sold it to \u201cPI\u201d for the skyrocketing BGN 944,000, while on April 15, “PI” transferred the meadow to Lukoil for BGN 985,500.<\/p>\n

Consumers of fuels pay – Lukoil’s shareholders lose<\/strong><\/p>\n

The real estate scheme actually looks like a drain of millions by Jitenski and by the offshore owners behind \u201cPI\u201d through pre-arranged property deals.<\/p>\n

The Managing Director of Lukoil Bulgaria, who sold the property on 59A \u201cCherni Vrah\u201d Boulevard to \u201cPI\u201d, and later paid the same company for the land for gas stations at inflated prices, was then and still is Valentin Zlatev<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Any sensibly managed company would check the prices of the land it buys, as well as the previous deals with the land it is interested in in order to achieve the best price. Such are at least the principles of the market economy. However, if the goal is not cost optimization, but a money drain from the company, or money laundering, the deals described above make sense.<\/p>\n

The inflated land prices from which Jitenski and \u201cPI\u201d have profiteered, have been paid by Bulgarian fuel consumers, who in 2008 had no other choice, but to buy only the Lukoil production.<\/p>\n

These deals do not match the statement in Lukoil Bulgaria’s right of reply, sent to our media, that says that “according to corporate rules, contractors and partners in major project are selected through bidding procedures and are usually among those offering the highest quality in their sector<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

It is also interesting to find out whether Lukoil’s shareholders, including US companies, would have approved such a waste of resources by the Bulgarian branch of the company.<\/p>\n

Apart from real estate deals, \u201cGP Group\u201d is the company that builds Lukoil’s gas stations. At what rates is this happening and whether there are bills of quantities inflated many times, similarly to the land prices, cannot be established because these relationships are not subject to entry in public registers and are company secrets.<\/p>\n

The investigation into the affair with consultancy firms<\/a>, \u201c#GPGate\u201d, clearly shows that \u201cGP Group\u201d and companies associated with it have built a number of buildings and sites with EU financing, with construction works being carried out with fewer materials. There is also evidence of parallel bills of quantities, with the differences in favor of the contractor reaching many hundreds percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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