Владислав Иванов ГОРАНОВ Former Bulgarian MP, Goranov was Minister of Finance in the second and third administrations led by the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) political party from November 2014 to January 2017 and again from May 2017 to July 2020. He allegedly used his position to facilitate the bribery of Bulgarian officials, …
Николай Симеонов МАЛИНОВ Malinov is a former Bulgarian official, a member of the parliament from the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 2009 and between 2013 and 2014, and is now the leader of the pro-Russian lobby group named Russophiles National Movement. He is as well the founder and chairman of the Russophiles for the Revival of …
Иван Киров ГЕНОВ Genov is a former CEO of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), Bulgaria’s sole nuclear power plant owned by the government through Bulgarian Energy Holding, and was a Bulgarian MP with the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) from 2017 to 2019. Geniv supposedly coordinated, along with Ovcharov and Nikolov, personal commissions and ill-gotten profits …
Александър НИКОЛОВ Nikolov is a former CEO and deputy director of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), Bulgaria’s sole nuclear power plant owned by the government through Bulgarian Energy Holding, where he worked for 30 years in several roles. Nikolov supposedly coordinated, along with Ovcharov and Genov, personal commissions and ill-gotten profits through corrupt and diverted …
Румен Стоянов ОВЧАРОВ Ovcharov served as a Bulgarian member of parliament (MP) and is currently a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) National Council. Ovcharov was also the minister responsible for energy in the late 1990s and again in the mid-2000s. He is accused of “extensive involvement in corruption” namely by repeatedly engaging in …
Илко Желязков An alleged frontman to Delyan Slavchev Peevski, Zhelyazkov is alleged to have conducted a bribery scheme involving Bulgarian residency documents for foreign persons, as well as bribing government officials through various means in exchange for their information and loyalty. For example, as of 2019, Zhelyazkov was suspected of offering bribes to senior Bulgarian …
Делян Славчев Пеевски Peevski is alleged to have regularly engaged in corruption, using influence peddling and bribes to protect himself from public scrutiny and exert control over key institutions and sectors in Bulgarian society. In September 2019, Peevski was suspected of having actively worked to negatively influence the Bulgarian political process in the October 27, …
Васил Божков Bojkov is reportedly Bulgaria’s richest man and is alleged to have bribed government officials on several occasions. Bojkov also allegedly planned to create a channel for Russian political leaders to influence Bulgarian government officials. He successfully evaded Bulgarian extradition on a number of charges levied in 2020, including leading an organized crime group, …
