Prosecutor's Office for Bozhkov: More than half a billion levs missing [ BG ]

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Prosecutor's Office for Bozhkov: More than half a billion levs missing

Prosecutor Mileva announced that Bozhkov offered BGN 10,000 daily to an official of the Gambling Commission

 

 

 

Numerous paintings and BGN 400 thousand were seized from the dwelling of the accused Vasil Bozhkov. This was announced by the Prosecutor General's spokesman Siika Mileva.

She said that in connection with the investigation against the businessman, 5 persons were recruited as defendants, with 4 of them being outside Bulgaria.

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A charge of official misconduct has been raised against the fifth person - this is the former chairman of the Gambling Commission, Mileva said.

The accusation of Vasil Bozhkov is charged with leading the organization of a criminal group that has been active throughout the country since 2014.

According to the prosecutor's office, the group committed coercion, extortion, office crimes, bribery and money laundering.

Mileva announced that Vasil Bozhkov offered every day BGN 10 thousand to an official of the Gambling Commission, who in turn would submit proposals for revocation of licenses to individual competing companies.

She announced that the non-paid tax revenues in the treasury of the businessman's companies amount to more than half a billion levs.

"This is a Christmas bonus for every pensioner for 10 years," Mileva added.

"The prosecution knows who it is against. The prosecutor's office knows that this gambling empire has extremely large financial resources and knows that it will protect them, including through you, the media, ”Mileva announced.

The Director of the State Financial Inspection Agency Georgi Nachev confirmed that the checks revealed that no more than half a billion levs had been received in the budget.

According to Nachev, the amount may increase, provided that the information provided to them is different from the reality.

"The Gambling Commission has not exercised administrative and criminal responsibility for registering the fees," Nachev said.

"This is the largest operation we have ever carried out," said Interior Minister Mladen Marinov.

Other officials are expected to be arraigned, prosecutors added.