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Two new recordings with the voice of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov were sent to several media outlets in the country in the afternoon of June 27, 2020. In one of them, Borisov appears to be talking to the former… Continue Reading…

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The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office is demonstrating lately enormous effort to take legal action against people openly supporting Moscow, labeling them “Russian spies”, but it is ignoring the powerful financial and oligarchic empire around Russia’s oil giant Lukoil in Bulgaria. Lukoil… Continue Reading…

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Over BGN 45 million have been siphoned from Lukoil only over deals with land for gas stations through companies related to GP Group, according to large-scale research by Bivol into hundreds of deals by Lukoil Bulgaria and its partners. The… Continue Reading…

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A consortium between the subsidiaries of Bombardier, the Canadian technology and engineering giant and the associated with the boss of Lukoil Bulgaria, Valentin Zlatev, company GP Group, has won the public procurement contract of the National Railway Infrastructure Company (NRIC)… Continue Reading…

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A two-story building on the beach and a powerful shoreline fortification on publicly-owned land – these are the new construction “achievements” in the vicinity of Dogan’s Seraglio in Park “Rosenets” in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Burgas. They can also… Continue Reading…

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Mr ATANAS TCHOBANOV Editor-in-Chief of Bivol Dear Mr Tchobanov, In a publication on your website under the headline “#GPGate: Consultancy Companies Involved in Grand Corruption with EU Funds and Public Procurement” it is claimed that the company “GP Group” is… Continue Reading…

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Evidence of large-scale and wide-spread corruption in European Union (EU) funded projects emerges from the secret accounting books of a network of consultancy firms linked to large construction companies. Bivol has obtained this non-public documentation for dozens of projects totaling… Continue Reading…

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It is a duty of an ambassador to promote the business relations between his country and local entrepreneurs. However, it seems that a number of recent Russian Ambassadors in Sofia went far beyond this, using their business contacts to also… Continue Reading…

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