A total of 50 Bulgarian companies and more than 100 individual owners are present in the Panama Papers, accessible via the Internet. Some 102 addresses of firms, most of them in the cities of Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv, are included in the documents. Among the names of owners of offshore companies are Bulgarian businessmen Vasil Bozhkov, Todor Batkov, Peter Mandzhukov, as well as Eugenia and Nikolai Banevs. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists warns that is was possible for names to match.
Bulgaria’s Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating a large-scale property fraud and money laundering scheme connected to the 'Historical Park', which is associated with Ivelin Mihaylov, the leader of the Velichie party. Those arrested include the..
The ruling party and the opposition argued about the procedure for the Budget Committee meeting before the final vote on the 2006 budget . Assen Vassilev, chairman of the We Continue the Change party, attempted to block the committee’s extraordinary..
Employees in the agriculture and forestry sector staged a protest in front of the Parliament, demanding higher salaries for workers in departments that are secondary budget administrators. The protest was organized by the National Federation of..
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