Documents: There is an OCG for money laundering with the participation of Boyko Borisov

Borisov was the father of Yovcheva’s child.
The money for the house in Barcelona came from Borisov himself.

“The investigation identifies as a real source of funds for the acquisition of the property BOYKO METODIEV BORISOV, PIN: XXXXXXXXXX, who in the period 2009 – 2013 held a senior public position in Bulgaria. Funds in this amount cannot have legal origin, as BORISOV did not have any property that would allow him to make such an expense. The money for the purchase of the property passed through the company “Tera Tour Service” EOOD, which was managed by the father of the person VALENTIN VASILEV ZLATEV, PIN XXXXXXXXXX, who is in close friendly relations with BORISOV. At the time of the acquisition of the property, Borisov maintained an intimate relationship with Yovcheva, with whom he has a child. This connection is denied by BORISOV, but evidence has been collected that he denies his relationship with the designated person in order not to be implicated in corrupt acts.”

The quoted passage is from an official document of the Prosecutor’s Office, signed by prosecutor Stefan Hristov from the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office. This is a property worth 2.9 million euros in Barcelona, acquired in order for Yovcheva and her family to live there. The highlights are from the editorial. Information about this house was revealed in 2016 in the Yaneva Gate recordings, and a few years later the Catalan police launched an investigation on a signal from DG BOETS.

Now it becomes clear that, according to Prosecutor Hristov, an organized criminal group was formed in 2012 with the aim of committing a crime under Art. 253 of the Penal Code “money laundering” and the funds were generated by corruption crimes of a person holding a senior public office.

The document is dated 02.06.2023 and is a well-grounded proposal to the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office to prepare an application for legal assistance to Turkey for the opening of bank accounts and properties of Borislava Yovcheva and Beyzat Yahya, referred to as close to Valentin Zlatev and Boyko Borisov. It is part of the evidence submitted by Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev to the registry of the Parliament on the request for the waiver of Boyko Borisov’s immunity.

Beyzat Sadak Yahya is known to be an agent of the State Security under the pseudonym “Mitko”. His son Ilter Beyzatov Sadakov is a member of GERB in the current 49th National Assembly and in four more before that. Prosecutors are interested in Beyzat Yahya because they suspect him to have exported BGN 300 million to Turkey and bought a luxury property for Yovcheva after 2015.

Bivol and BIRD.BG received access to some of the documents submitted to Parliament. We do not have documents proving the prosecutor’s allegations that Borisov is an “actual source of funds” and that he “maintained an intimate relationship with Yovcheva, with whom he has a child.” At the moment, we do not have the evidence of the criminal origin of the funds or the so-called. a predicate crime that generated the corrupt income before the crime of money laundering began. It is possible that such documents are in the folders with which the Bulgarian MPs can get acquainted with.

The documents in our possession reveal the information that the property in Barcelona was bought by Alexander Chaushev under a mandate contract with the company “Terra Tour Sérviz” EOOD, with manager Valentin Zlatev’s father – Vasil. This was admitted by Vasil Petkov himself, claiming that the property was acquired for investment purposes.

This is new information that shortens the link between Borisov and the source of the money. The company “Terra Tour Sérviz” is owned by an offshore company, but Valentin Zlatev, a close friend of Borisov, is declared as the beneficial owner in the Bulgarian Commercial Register. Until now, it was known that Chaushev had bought the property and he claimed to the media that he had done it with his own funds and not with the money of a legal entity under a contract for a mandate.

The file traveled for two years from Spesta to Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office

Pre-trial proceedings for money laundering OCG in the Barcelonagate case have started at the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in 2020 with number 452/2020 (probably on a signal from DG BOETS). On 22.07.2020 the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office sent it under the competence of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office.

SCC accepted the materials more than two years later, on 02.09.2022 and registered it under number 16617/2022. This is clear from the decision of the Sofia City Court in case 3101/2023 to approve a search and seizure from the home of Asen Naydenov.

Meanwhile, at the beginning of 2022, the materials of the Spanish investigation were sent by competence to the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office. It is not clear what happened to them until September 2022, when the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office finally deigned to accept the file of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office.

Who is Asen Naydenov?

As we wrote earlier, Asen Naydenov is a key figure in the financial network of Zlatev and Borisov, as he is simultaneously connected with Zlatev’s companies, including Terra Tour Service, and in the past he was a member of the Supervisory Board of CIBANK of Tsvetelina Borislavova. He was born in the Soviet Union and is a fellow student of Zlatev and Chaushev of the MGIMO Institute, considered a hatchery of cadres and agents of influence for Russian intelligence.

Naydenov was followed by the Sofia Directorate of the Interior and detected walking around a large brown poodle. On 03.06.2023 his home was searched as a matter of urgency. A MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone computer were seized, and it voluntarily passed on the codes for them, according to the search protocol. The references from the Sofia Directorate of the Interior and the protocols, as well as the court’s decision on the search are also attached to the documents submitted by Ivan Geshev to the National Assembly.

According to operational information from Bivol and BIRD, data on money transfers, offshore companies and other information useful for the Barcelonagate investigation were found in Naydenov’s seized devices. According to the forecast of Ivan Geshev himself, it will end no earlier than the end of the year, but Borisov’s immunity is now required with a view to carrying out various expertise and procedural actions such as search and seizure, for which Borisov’s criminal inviolability is an obstacle.

“At the moment, there is sufficient evidence in the case for the guilt of Boyko Metodiev Borisov in committing two crimes of a general nature, namely under Art. 253, vr. Al. 1, pr. 2 and 3, ex. Art. 20, para. 3 and 4 of the Penal Code,” Geshev wrote to Parliament in his request of 02.06.2023 to lift Borisov’s immunity.

We are talking about the crime of money laundering (Art. 253) and incitement to crime (Art. 20). But no data and evidence of the predicate crime are found in this request either. Precisely because it could not prove from what crime the millions in Barcelona appeared, the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office sent the Barcelonagate case to the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office.

Joint investigation of BIRD.BG and BIVOL.BG

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