{"id":51089,"date":"2020-01-18T01:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T22:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=51089"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T10:40:06","slug":"bulgarian-agency-approves-gambling-boss-illegible-financial-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-agency-approves-gambling-boss-illegible-financial-statements.html","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian Agency Approves Gambling Boss\u2019 Illegible Financial Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For three years now, the \u201cEurofootball\u201d and &#8220;National Lottary&#8221; companies, affiliated with the gambling boss <strong>Vasil \u201cThe Scull\u201d Bozhkov<\/strong>, has been submitting totally illegible annual financial statements to the Registry Agency. The statements do not give any idea of what the revenues, costs and profits are. The law requires the Registry Agency to return such documents and request legible ones, but in Bozhkov\u2019s case, it does not.<\/p>\n<p>Bivol analyzed several documents available in the Commercial Register. All of them contain unreadable data in relation to the figures in the requested financial statement and do not allow verification in accordance with Art. 21 of the Commercial Register Act.<\/p>\n<div><iframe class=\"embed-pdf-viewer\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/60223090.pdf\" height=\"1000\" width=\"100%\" title=\"60223090\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/60223090.pdf\" title=\"60223090\">60223090<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><iframe class=\"embed-pdf-viewer\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/53691877.pdf\" height=\"1000\" width=\"100%\" title=\"53691877\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/53691877.pdf\" title=\"53691877\">53691877<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Art. 10 and Art. 11 of the same Act, the documents should be publicly available and accessible to everyone free of charge. In reality, however, the documents exist, but no data are available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51117\" style=\"width: 733px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51117\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51117\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-768x1087.png 768w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-1085x1536.png 1085w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-1447x2048.png 1447w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-1170x1656.png 1170w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017-585x828.png 585w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nlotaria-2017.png 1478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0413\u0424\u041e \u043d\u0430 \u041d\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u043d\u0430 \u043b\u043e\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0438\u044f \u0437\u0430 2017 \u0433.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Registry Agency did not respond to our query as to who was the employee who approved the entry of these financial statements. There is no indication in the Commercial Register that Eurofootball\u2019s and National Lottary annual financial statements have been returned with instructions to correct the irregularities and make legible copies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51035\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51035\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51035\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016-731x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016-731x1024.png 731w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016-768x1076.png 768w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016-1096x1536.png 1096w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016-1170x1640.png 1170w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016-585x820.png 585w, https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eurofootball-2016.png 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u041d\u0435\u0447\u0435\u0442\u043b\u0438\u0432 \u0413\u0424\u041e \u043d\u0430 \u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u0444\u0443\u0442\u0431\u043e\u043b \u0437\u0430 2016 \u0433.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The majority shareholder in Eurofootball Ltd. is Eurosudruzhie (Euro Association) Ltd., which in turn is a majority shareholder of Vabo Systems Ltd, which is owned by Nove Internal of <strong>Vasil Krumov Bozhkov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The majority shareholder in National Lottary is Nove Development EOOD owned by Nove Internal of Bozhkov.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, US interim Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires in Sofia, John Ordway, has sent a classified <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/09SOFIA508_a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diplomatic cable<\/a> to Washington, identifying Vasil Bozhkov as &#8220;Bulgaria&#8217;s most infamous gangster&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>(C) Bulgaria&#8217;s most infamous gangster is Vasil Krumov Bozhkov, aka &#8220;the Skull.&#8221; Bozhkov founded his first company in 1990 before creating his current business empire, NOVE HOLDING, comprising over 30 companies and numerous subsidies. Bozhkov, whose wealth is valued at USD 1.5 billion, is one of the richest men in Bulgaria and almost made the top 50 richest Eastern Europeans list in 2008. He is now slowly moving out of the organized crime business and primarily owns casinos, hotels, and media outlets. However, he is still reportedly active in money laundering, privatization fraud, intimidation, extortion, racketeering, and illegal antique dealing. He maintains close relationships with many former government officials (Ref B).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For three years now, the \u201cEurofootball\u201d and &#8220;National Lottary&#8221; companies, affiliated with the gambling boss Vasil \u201cThe Scull\u201d Bozhkov, has been submitting totally illegible annual financial statements to the Registry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16850,"featured_media":17201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","kia_subtitle":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5542,5806],"tags":[9990,9992,9993,9991],"class_list":["post-51089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investigations-en","category-leading-en","tag-annual-financial-statements","tag-eurofootball","tag-gambling","tag-vasil-bozhkov"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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