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.
''I am not surprised that the president’s veto concerning the sale of Lukoil’s assets was overturned, because even on such a delicate, serious and worrying issue, there were no arguments or discussion'', Vice President Iliana Iotova told journalists..
Birth rate in Bulgaria has decreased by 33% over the past three decades. In 1994, 79,442 live births were registered in the country, while in 2024 the number dropped to 53,428. 6.5% of Bulgarian children are now born through in vitro fertilization..
The majority in parliament overcame the president's veto on the Investment Promotion Act. The bill was passed in second reading on October 24, but President Rumen Radev vetoed parts of it, arguing that the proposed rules specifically..
Birth rate in Bulgaria has decreased by 33% over the past three decades. In 1994, 79,442 live births were registered in the country, while in 2024 the..
The police have neutralized an organized crime group that transported migrants from Burgas through Sofia to the Serbian border, Sofia..
The majority in parliament overcame the president's veto on the Investment Promotion Act. The bill was passed in second reading on..
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