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Bulgarian organised crime traces its roots to the 1960s, with import-export companies such as Kintex (owned by Bulgaria's secret police- the State Security agency) profiting from illegal export of weapons and other contraband goods such as amphetamines and cigarettes to terrorists and political groups in the Middle East and North Africa.
Security Insurance Company (SIC) is a Bulgarian criminal group engaged in drug trafficking, financial fraud, car theft, smuggling, extortion, racketeering and prostitution, using the cover of an official business in the insurance and alcoholic beverage sectors. On the other hand, SIC Bulgaria is a private investment company that invests ...
Vasil Iliev Security, or VIS, was a criminal organization in Bulgaria dealing in extortion, car theft, drug trafficking and more. Set up in the early 1990s by Vasil Iliev, the company was declared illegal in 1994, but continued operating under the new name of VIS-2.
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Tsvetan Vasilev (also spelled Tzvetan Vassilev; Bulgarian: Цветан Василев; born 1959) is a Bulgarian entrepreneur. He is the former majority shareholder and chairman of the supervisory board of Corporate Commercial Bank, the fifth-largest Bulgarian bank based on assets, which collapsed in 2014 after a bank run. [1]
The amendments, which are related to Corpbank (KTB), were conclusively adopted in February 2018, Bulgarian News Agency reported. According to the movers' reasons, the idea of the amendments is to establish an effective mechanism for replenishing a bankrupt bank's bankruptcy estate and to suppress schemes for plundering assets purchased directly ...
The second part of the former name of the party, "Mafia, get out!" (Bulgarian: Мутри вън!, romanized: Mutri van!, мутра, pl. мутри being a slang word for mafia member), was taken directly from president Rumen Radev's final words in his speech in 9 July 2020 in front of the gathered crowd which was one of the factors that sparked the 2020–2021 anti-government protests.
TIM is an organized crime syndicate incorporated as a holding company based in Varna, Bulgaria. [1] The company is controlled by three veterans of an elite communist-era military unit: Tihomir Mitev, Ivo Kamenov, and Marin Mitev. [2] The abbreviation TIM stands for the first letters of each of the owners' first names.