The name of Bulgarian national Alexander Mirtchev is found in the leaked files of the US Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN. It is included in a suspicious activity report (SAR) on multimillion-dollar transactions involving Russian oligarch Oleg… Continue Reading…
3 октомври 2020
A company of arms trader Dobrin Ivanov received large sums from an offshore company linked to the money laundering scheme uncovered by Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the FinCEN Files and an investigation by the Italian Prosecutor’s Office into the Volonte… Continue Reading…
13 октомври 2020
Bulgarian company Advance Creative Group was established in September 2018. It paid EUR 4 million in December 2018 for an office building on the prestigious “Ionos Dragumi” street in Thessaloniki. Documents obtained by Bivol indicate that the company was represented… Continue Reading…
1 април 2020
Elena Dineva, the life partner of Bulgarian gambling mogul Vassil Bozhkov, has had a service passport as well. This emerges from a response to questions under the Access to Public Information Act (APIA), sent to the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign… Continue Reading…
5 декември 2019
From December 3 to December 5, all regional directors of the Bulgarian Social Assistance Agency (SAA) and those responsible for public procurement gather at the four-star Spa Hotel Olympus in the resort town of Velingrad, Bivol learned after receiving an… Continue Reading…
23 юни 2019
There are a total of six guesthouse projects funded under the European Union (EU) Rural Development Program (RDP) 2007-2013 in the Bulgarian SPA resort town of Velingrad. Only one of them does not seem to be associated with persons who… Continue Reading…
5 август 2020
The Deputy Director of Bulgaria’s National Security Agency (DANS) Nedyalko Nedyalkov is a close relative of Dimitar Sabev, a former collaborator and agent with the codename “Assen” of the Communist regime’s special services – the State Security (DS), known as… Continue Reading…
6 март 2019
About EUR 130 million has been wired to Bulgarian accounts from more than 150 offshore companies associated with the “Troika Laundromat” – a money laundering system that has allowed corrupt politicians and organized criminal figures to secretly launder money, evade… Continue Reading…
Bokova • Investigations • Leading • The Azerbaijani Laundromat
18 септември 2017
Two transfers of EUR 40,000 from the account of a company involved in the Azerbaijani Laundromat to a Swiss account of Bulgarian banker Kalin Mitrev have been rejected by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse and returned via Deutsche Bank. The… Continue Reading…
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Reporter asks questions with government security guards breathing down her neck
Prime Minister, Are You the Father of Borislava Yovcheva’s Child?
15 септември 2020
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov arrived in the southern city of Kardzhali on September 12, 2020. His “live performance” in front of an organized audience was known for a week already but two days prior to the scheduled visit there… Continue Reading…
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