Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/update-hal-billion-social-ministry.html
Financial abuse valued at a couple hundred million euro have been exposed at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. The embezzlement is primarily tied to funds from different European…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/bulgarian-golden-passport-scandal-in-uruguay-with-a-colonel-from-the-russian-interior-ministry.html
Since 2008, Former colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, Andrey Valeryevich Kashtanov, has held a passport of the Republic of Bulgaria under the notorious…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/bivol-exposed-our-secret-weapons-in-ukraine-petkov-and-ninova-denied-it.html
No, there is no news in Die Welt and POLITICO’s articles, the secret weapons deliveries to Ukraine were first exposed by investigative journalism outlet Bivol in partnership with Polish investigative…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/burgas-refinery-of-greater-value-to-lukoil-than-the-one-in-ploiesti-are-the-russians-leaving-romania.html
Lukoil is looking for buyers for their businesses in Romania and Moldova, Capital wrote on Monday quoting Balkan Insight. Based on information from the RuAssets registries, to which we have…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/bivol-is-now-part-of-the-global-investigative-journalism-network.html
Bivol has now been welcomed into the world’s largest family of investigative reporters and journalism nonprofits – the Global Investigative Jourmalism Network (GIJN). Joining GIJN is a great and unequivocal…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/lawsuit-against-bivol-in-greece-over-article-about-the-badr-tanker.html
Lawsuits against the investigative reporting outlet Bivol were among the cases discussed at the New Horizons in Journalism international conference, hosted by the World Press Institute and the Association of European…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/lawsuit-against-bivol-in-greece-over-article-about-the-badr-tanker-2.html
Lawsuits against the investigative reporting outlet Bivol were among the cases discussed at the New Horizons in Journalism international conference, hosted by the World Press Institute and the Association of European…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/putin-moves-to-legalise-his-hijacking-of-the-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant.html
The Russian federation has found a way to legalise its capture of Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant. Russia’s armed forces stormed the Zaporizhzhia plant in South-Eastern Ukraine in March 2022.…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/bivol-and-capital-distinguished-as-contributors-to-german-documentary-on-ruja-ignatova.html
Investigative reporting outlet Bivol and the weekly newspaper Capital were the only Bulgarian media invited to work on the production of a new documentary about cryptoqueen Ruja Ignatova. Die Kryptoqueen…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/sofia-secretly-selling-old-weapons-meant-for-ukraine-via-romania-and-poland.html
Instead of offering military help in an official and transparent way, Bulgaria is secretly selling weapons meant for Ukraine through Poland and Romania, Bivol found out in a joint investigation…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/three-bulgarian-companies-importing-phosphates-from-bashar-assad-sanctioned-putin-oligarch-andrey-melnichenko-among-the-clients.html
Three Bulgarian companies have been importing phosphates from the Syrian Arab Republic, whose president Bashar Assad and his ministry of oil have been under US sanctions since 2011 and under…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/a-bloody-trade-inside-the-murky-supply-chain-of-syrian-phosphates-into-europe.html
Imports of Syrian phosphates into Europe have boomed over the past several years. The importers include Serbia and Ukraine, as well EU members Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, and Poland. Security firms…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/86865.html
“Bulgaria is at war against freedom of speech,” stated Asen Yordanov, the founder of the Investigative Journalism Site “Bivol” in an interview for the podcast “MFRR in Focus”. The interview…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/anti-corruption-body-acts-on-bivols-findings-about-vassil-bozhkovs-property.html
Bulgaria’s Commission for Anti-Corruption and Illegal Assets Forfeiture (CACIAF) is working on seizing the property of gambling boss Vassil Bozhkov, known as the Skull, identified by Bivol in an investigation…
Post Syndicated from Екип на Биволъ original https://bivol.bg/powerful-us-lobbyist-aids-businesses-linked-to-sanctioned-bulgarian-lawmaker-has-joint-company-with-notorious-attorney.html
United States (US) Democratic Party lobbyist Anthony Podesta has signed lobbying deals worth more than USD 2 million with Bulgarian companies whose owners are linked to controversial Bulgarian lawmaker, former media mogul…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/eurohold-bulgaria-sues-bivol-for-the-record-sum-of-e05-mln.html
”A large Bulgarian company is suing investigative website Bivol for the record-high amount of 1 million BGN.” That is what attorney Alexander Kashumov announced at an event organized by the…
Post Syndicated from Екип на Биволъ original https://bivol.bg/assen-yordanov-if-a-lustration-law-had-been-passed-bulgaria-would-not-be-in-this-state.html
Interview by Peter Zdravkov (FAKTI.bg) Thirty-two years after 10 November 1989 Bulgaria has changed a lot but at the same time, looking at that change, many more opportunities to transform…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/maduros-treasurer-extradited-to-usa-specialised-prosecutors-drag-their-feet-over-his-money-at-bulgarias-investbank.html
Over the past weekend Colombian billionaire Alex Saab Moran, appointed by Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as his “special diplomatic envoy”, was extradited from Cabo Verde to the USA, where he…
Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/maduros-treasurer-extradited-to-usa-specialised-prosecutors-drag-their-feet-over-his-money-at-bulgarias-investbank-2.html
Over the past weekend Colombian billionaire Alex Saab Moran, appointed by Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as his “special diplomatic envoy”, was extradited from Cabo Verde to the USA, where he…
Post Syndicated from Биволъ original https://bivol.bg/peevski-exerts-influence-through-lawyers-pouring-millions-into-reallocating-company.html
Aviora Consult, the legal firm servicing Delyan Peevski’s businesses and hiring high-level lobbyists to defend him against Magnitsky Act measures in the USA, has received over 19 million BGN from…