The villa in the southern Bulgarian resort town of Sandanski, built with European Union (EU) money by the former Deputy Minister of Economy Alexander Manolev, had been mortgaged through a proxy in November 2019 against a loan of BGN 431,000…. Continue Reading…
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6 юни 2020
After more than a decade of membership in the European Union (EU), European projects in Bulgaria turned into financial mechanisms for the chosen few. Ordinary humans are not allowed in this domain. The measures under the Rural Development Program (RDP)… Continue Reading…
21 май 2020
The police had detained three people in the Bulgarian capital Sofia during special ops against a criminal group suspected of contract murders, Bulgarian media reported. One of these suspected murders is that of Stanka Marangozova. She was shot dead by… Continue Reading…
25 април 2020
The mother of Christian Nikolov, the young man who high on drugs crashed on Easter a large SUV into the car of popular Bulgarian journalist Milen Tsvetkov, killing him on the spot, has been involved in fraud with European Union… Continue Reading…
8 януари 2020
The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office probes into guesthouses financed with European money do not examine at all whether the guesthouses are used for accommodations of guests or for private purposes. This emerges from several prosecutorial decrees for refusals to launch pre-trial… Continue Reading…
27 октомври 2019
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…
20 септември 2019
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…
27 август 2019
A company of Alexander Vaklin and Mario Krakovski has financed the residence where the life partner of Prosecutor General hopeful Ivan Geshev has bought an apartment at a price far below the tax assessment. They have other joint ventures for… Continue Reading…
8 юли 2019
Radiаna Abdulova, investigator at the Sofia Investigative Services (SIS), told Bivol that she had been part of a “retaliatory squad” to investigate politicians and senior officials. Two years ago, her colleague, investigator Boyko Atanassov, revealed in a series of interviews… Continue Reading…
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Venezuelan MP Approaches Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General over Maduro’s Millions
1 септември 2020
In the wake of Bivol’s investigation into the millions of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the Bulgarian “bad apple” bank Investbank, Venezuelan opposition MP Freddy Superlano has approached the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria. Bivol is in… Continue Reading…
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