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Financial abuse valued at a couple hundred million euro have been exposed at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. The embezzlement is primarily tied to funds from different European Union programs awarded under the law for public procurement. The… Continue Reading…

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Since 2008, Former colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, Andrey Valeryevich Kashtanov, has held a passport of the Republic of Bulgaria under the notorious “Citizenship by Investment” program. “Bivol” further wrote about this high-ranking… Continue Reading…

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Instead of offering military help in an official and transparent way, Bulgaria is secretly selling weapons meant for Ukraine through Poland and Romania, Bivol found out in a joint investigation with our Polish colleagues at Fundacja Reporterow (FR). Our findings… Continue Reading…

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Bulgaria’s Commission for Anti-Corruption and Illegal Assets Forfeiture (CACIAF) is working on seizing the property of gambling boss Vassil Bozhkov, known as the Skull, identified by Bivol in an investigation based on the Panama Papers. The first of those seizures… Continue Reading…

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Irish MEP Clare Daly arrived in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort town of Pomorie with a purpose – to get acquainted with a long-standing problem of Irish citizens who bought homes there. People are racketeered to pay huge annual fees for… Continue Reading…

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An on-location inspection by Bivol found that concrete had been poured on the coastline on the northern side of Cape Chukalyata in Rosenets Park near the Black Sea city of Burgas. About 200 meters of the coastal zone is literally… Continue Reading…

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The woman, who is the life partner Bulgaria’s Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, has an impressive career from a pole dancer to a lawyer and has worked along the way for a leader of an organized crime group and for a company… Continue Reading…

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The family of one of Ukraine’s most corrupt young prosecutors, the former Kyiv District Prosecutor Sergey Nechiporenko, caught red-handed with a USD 150,000 bribe, owns at least three luxury properties in Bulgaria. This is revealed by an investigation by the… Continue Reading…

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On October 24, the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office published on its site a press release in connection with a publication by Bivol, dated October 23 and titled “Only Candidate to Become Bulgaria’s New Prosecutor General Teams Up with Organized Crime?”. In… Continue Reading…

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With their revelations about corruption in Bulgaria, Atanas Tchobanov and his site Bivol (“the Buffalo”) get in the way. To the point that the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office has asked the French judicial system to investigate the former political refugee residing… Continue Reading…

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