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In post-1990 Bulgaria, the word борец ("wrestler") came to denote a mafia man (a common synonym is мутра (mutra), [2] literally "mug, or mean mug"). The image of the Bulgarian "mug", including a sturdy muscular build, a black suit, sunglasses , a shaved head, and golden jewellery , became synonymous with the so-called Bulgarian ...
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Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: Ружа Пламенова Игнатова, romanized: Ruža Plamenova Ignatova, occasionally transliterated as "Ruga Ignatova"; born May 30, 1980 – disappeared October 25, 2017) [2] is a Bulgarian-born German entrepreneur best known as one of the FBI’s Top Ten wanted Fugitives, and as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin ...
What looks like an old-school mob hit is bringing attention to the Mafia's new norms. “We’ve got a gig Mafia now”: What a mob boss’s murder tells us Skip to main content
Varna was rumored to be the main hub for Bulgarian organized crime. Some sectors of the economy, including gambling, corporate security, tourism, real estate, and professional sports, are believed to be controlled in part by business groups with links to Communist-era secret services or the military; the TIM group, [1] based in Varna, is one example.
Organized crime in the United States by ethnicity (11 C) A. Albanian Mafia (14 P) ... Bulgarian mafia; C. Cape Verdean organized crime; Caucasian Front (militant group)
In his scandalous book he writes that one of the most notorious gangsters from SIC (which was one of the major crime structures in Bulgaria during the "transition period"—the 1990s) Mladen Mihalev - Majo, had sexual relationship with Gotsev, and he suggests that is one of the main reasons why Majo was given such a big share from the illegal ...
Iliya Pavlov Naydenov (Bulgarian: Илия Павлов Найденов; August 6, 1960 – March 7, 2003) was a Bulgarian mobster.A banker, financier and philanthropist, he was the leader and founder of Multigroup organization and G-13.