Barcelonagate: NRA has seized the properties of Miss Bikini’s father. Plumber Georgi Yovchev has not declared BGN 1.7 million.

The National Revenue Agency (NRA) has seized the properties and accounts of Georgi Yovchev – father of the occupant of “The House in Barcelona” Borislava Yovcheva. He owes $267,171. tax for undeclared BGN 1.7 million, for which he has not explained where he owns them. This was established by our inspection in the Property Register and the Registry Agency. The interdiction imposed by the NRA took place at the end of 2021, almost a year after the publication of El Periodico, which brought to light an investigation by the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office for money laundering with the participation of then-Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

How did it come to #Barcelonagate

We recall that as early as 2016 in the recordings “Yaneva Gate” appeared information about a woman with whom the former PM Boyko Borisov He had a connection and to which he was extremely sympathetic. Judge Yaneva then said that Borisov bought her a house in Barcelona for EUR 1.5 million. It was later revealed that this woman was Borislava Yovcheva. She is said to be the mother of Borisov’s child.

But there are earlier publications about Borisov’s centilateral relationship in Yovcheva, for example in the Maritsa newspaper from November 2013, in which there is a photo from a football match of Borisov and Borislava’s brother Stanko Yovchev. The photo is illustrated with the title “Family Wars – Boyko Goes Out Against His Brother-in-law”.

The information about the expensive house was revealed in anonymous videos published in the summer of 2018, which refer to documents from the Spanish registers. On the basis of these facts, the NGO GD-BOETS approached the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office through the Spanish Embassy in Sofia. A few months later, in March 2019, the association approached the Catalan police MOSSOS d’Escadra with the same signal. BOETS also filed a signal with KPKONPI, and MP Elena Yoncheva reported the same allegations to the prosecution in May 2019.

An investigation by the Spanish daily El Periodico revealed that in addition to the house, the price of which turned out to be over 3m euros, the price of which was more than 3m euros. Yovcheva also manages a boutique on the navel of Barcelona – a company store of the luxury Italian brand “Chervigno”. In the company with the boutique share of 850,000 euros has her father Georgi Yovchev, who by profession is a plumber. Another 850,000 euros of the capital were paid by an offshore linked to
Yordan Hristov
, close to Borisov.

After the revelations of “El Periodico” the boutique was explicitly emptied and the company transferred to the close to GERB Rositsa Velkova. Another transfer of the company to the wife of Borisov’s “personal palmist” followed.

The publication provoked new signals from BOETS this time against the father Georgi Yovchev, whose enrichment is inexplicable.

Borisov: “No, don’t ask me nonsense”

For a long time no one asked Boyko Borisov whether he is the father of Yovcheva’s child, which, according to Spanish investigators, does not have an official second parent. On September 12, 2020, his question was asked by Bivol’s journalist Vildan Bayryamova. Borisov denied and visibly nervous ended the media briefing.

A year ago, Spain forwarded the investigation into money laundering to the Ministry of Interior and the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office on jurisdiction. The Prosecutor’s Office pretended to be distracted, but Boyko Rashkov announced in February 2022 that the data had been received by the Ministry of Interior and thus forced the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office to launch a probe. The case is now in the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office.

NRA: Yovchev has become rich with BGN 1.7 million

The first information about the tax inspections initiated by the NRA came after questions under the APIA by the civil association BOETS. Our check in the portal for electronic services of the NRA EstablishAs of 25.03.2023, the tax audits of the persons associated with “Barcelonagate” continue to hang out. The deadlines are constantly extended, but then they are not respected.

A check of the BIRD.BG in the Property Register found that the foreclosure imposed by the NRA on the properties of Miss Bikini’s father Georgi Yovchev occurred at the end of 2021 by Decree No C210022-023-0003081/12.11.2021.

The decree on precautionary measures of the NRA, issued on 16.11.2021, shows that Georgi Yovchev has been audited and it has been established that only for 2015 he has received undeclared income BGN 1,711,351.25. This corresponds to his shares in the Spanish company with the boutique Ema BG S.L.

The tax payable with interest at the time of the decree is BGN 267,171 In order to secure this claim, the NRA seized the properties in Sofia and Sandanski and Yovchev’s bank account with UBB, which has BGN 209,903. To date, the interest owed by Borisov’s father-in-law has probably increased by another BGN 100,000,000.

This is how the data released in the investigation of the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office for money laundering in their part about Yovchev are confirmed. Bulgarian prosecutors, however, are not in a hurry with the case. According to information from the BIRD.BG, more data from NRA audits are expected and the probe is unlikely to be completed before the end of the year, despite the optimistic statements of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev himself. At the end of January, in an interview with BNT , he announced that the case #Барселонагейт the investigation into the bars and bundles in Borisov’s drawer will be completed by the end of February.

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