Parliamentary adviser to Vazrazhdane NP with offshore companies and 1.6 million debt to the NRA

MP Elena Guncheva from “Vazrazhdane” receives valuable advice in the field of “finance, economy and European funds” from Stefan Bachvarov, who was appointed as her part-time parliamentary assistant. Bachvarov is connected to an offshore company in the Seychelles and to 24 companies

, of which 5 have over BGN 1.6 million.

Obligations to the NRA. Bachvarov was once an activist of the BSP.

Guncheva describes to 24 Hours their relationship as follows: “We have known each other for many years, I have used him as a consultant in commercial matters as a lawyer and I know that I can trust him.” The MP became famous after the appointment of Assoc. Atanas Mangarov for a medical associate after it became clear that the prosecution is probing him for scaremongering among the population.

Companies with debts to the NRA

Stefan Bachvarov is a manager of 5 companies with large liabilities to the NRA: PURA VIDA 13 Ltd. with 594 thousand. Lv. ZERO GROUP Ltd. with 541 thousand. ALESTRA EOOD with 262 thousand. WINE TRADING COMPANY LTD with 172 thousand. 72 thousand. Lv. In two of them Bachvarov is the sole owner through another of his companies – Agency City Consulting Ltd.

The total liabilities to the NRA of the companies managed by the part-time assistant in parliament are over BGN 1 million and 640 thousand

. The data is detected thanks to the information system of the BRRD, which brings together various public registers to track the assets of powerful and operationally interesting persons.

In the NRA’s archive of messages to tax debtors under Article 32 of the Tax and Social Security Procedure Code, there are dozens of messages to Bachvarov. The last one is dated 18.10.2021.

And violations of the Measures Against Money Laundering Act

Stefan Bachvarov is also a manager of companies with foreign participation that have not declared beneficial owners, as required by the Measures Against Money Laundering Act. The Seychelles offshore MALTA FINANCE HOLDING LTD is the sole owner of the Bulgarian MALTA CONSULTING EOOD and MALTA REAL ESTATE EOOD, BOTH REGISTERED IN 2011. Circumstances had to be Declared until May 31, 2019 before the Registry Agency, but this was not done. Other companies from the 24 companies related to Bachvarov, in which the two companies owned by the offshore participate as sole owner or as partners, were also required by law to declare beneficial owners, but this was not done either.

The documents submitted to the Commercial Register show that MALTA FINANCE HOLDING LTD was registered in March 2011. with a capital of $ 1 million, and the director is Cynthia Julie Alcindore, with an address in Mae, Seychelles. The name of the director can be found in many other offshore companies in the database of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ.

It is not known whether the companies were among
the offenders.
established by the Registry Agency or have remained outside the scope of the inspections. Only 10 companies were sanctioned until 7 months ago, and all 10 were sanctioned a total of BGN 5,000, or BGN 500 each. of violation.

Photo: Facebook profile of Stefan Bachvarov

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