Sarafovi became millionaires. Politicians from GERB gave them expensive properties

The son, mother and ex-wife of the head of the National Investigation Service Borislav Sarafov They have become big real estate developers. The basis of their enrichment became a donation of an expensive property in Sofia by a former GERB MP and a sale for a symbolic price of plots for construction near Bozhurishte by a former municipal councilor of GERB. In addition to lucrative plots from politicians, the family also acquired residential property from individuals investigated for money laundering.

Landless magistrate with enterprising son

Borislav Sarafov’s son became famous because of the “Apartmentgate” saga in 2019, when Bivol revealed that at the age of 21 he had paid BGN 540,000. about two apartments in the luxury complex “Edelweiss”. The price of these properties is very low compared to the market. The senior investigator’s explanations were that he helped with his son’s purchases after selling in 2017-2019. three legacy apartments (81.85 sq.m., 65.2 sq.m. and 46.46 sq.m.) in Sofia. A check by the NRA followed, but only for one of the properties of the young Bobby Sarafov. It ended with no consequences for him or his father.

After selling his property, Borislav Sarafov He’s getting divorced. His new wife is Borislava Alexandrova Sarafova – prosecutor at the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office (SCP). Sarafov’s latest declarations show that he lives free of charge in an apartment in Sofia, which is owned by her parents.

Unlike his landless father, son Bobby He expanded his holdings after 2019 and turned to the construction business. Currently, he is building a luxury residential building with a gym in Vitosha region. Together with his mother, he owns directly and indirectly lucrative properties in Bozhurishte, where a construction boom is expected.

Expensive Sofia property donated by a former MP and cousin

A key role for the business rise of Bobby Sarafov Jr. has a donation of real estate in Sofia. On 03.02.2021 Svetlin Dimitrov Tanchev donated a plot of 1783 sq.m. in the Vitosha region of Vitosha Veneta Stoilova Sarafova. It is mother of the Deputy Prosecutor General and Director of NSlS Borislav Bobby Sarafov.

Tanchev is a former
MP
, which in the 41st and 42nd National Assembly was elected by GERB and in the 43rd National Assembly by the “Bulgarian Democratic Center – People’s Union”. Tanchev is a first cousin of Borislav Sarafov, Mediapool reported after his election in 2012.

A few months later, on November 25, 2021, Baba Veneta donated the property to her grandson Bobby Borislav Sarafov. The tax assessment of the property at this time is BGN 107,000, which is a ridiculously low price for such a section in Sofia.

After acquiring the lucrative plot, Bobby establishes the company “Ixora Residence”

” Ltd. (registered on 08.12.2021) with subject of activity construction, sale and rental of real estate, etc. Activities. The company was established with 1000 BGN. capital distributed equally between Sarafov Jr. and “Creative Studio

Ltd. – its sole ownership since 03.12.2020

In January 2022. Bobby Borislav Sarafov increases the capital of “Xora Residence” by contributing the land property, which has already been valued at BGN 885,400. The in-kind contribution was entered in the Commercial Register on 06.01.2022 A month and a half later, on 22.02.2022, Borislav Sarafov’s ex-wife – Evgenia Tsvetkova Sarafova became the second manager of the company.

Without delay, Ixora gets a permit for the construction of a multi-family residential building with fitness and underground garages with a total built-up area of 1426 sq.m. Construction work began in the same year, as evidenced by Google Street. In October 2022, the foundations of the future building have already been caught.

A curious fact is that the company received financing for the construction works only in January 2023, when it received a loan of BGN 4 million from CCB against a mortgage on future apartments.

With what money the initial construction works, which are quite large-scale, were financed, is unclear. But it is obvious that construction is progressing rapidly, and with current prices and demand for residential properties, young Bobby will soon become a multimillionaire in euros. Returning the loan is unlikely to be a problem.

Building plots near Sofia for 5 BGN/sq.m. by a former city councillor

In 2022, Bobby and his mother made several modest property acquisitions in the land of the village of Prolesha, which is near Bozhurishte. The mother Evgenia counts 24502 leva. for plots with a total area of 4623 sq.m. Bobby bought for 18303 leva. several adjacent plots with a total area of 3453 sq.m. And his company Creative Studio got for BGN 17,130. with 3232 sq.m.

Thus, the average cost of the acquired sq.m. It is about 5 leva, but the real value of these lands is at least twenty times higher. Because we are not talking about agricultural land, but about regulated plots with low-rise construction. Sections in the area of Prolesha are currently offered for about 50 euros per sq.m. If these properties are sold now, Bobby and his mother will earn over 1 million leva.

The seller of all these properties is the company “
Park Auto
“, whose co-owner is Stanimir Zharkov – former municipal councilor from GERB in Bozhurishte and unsuccessful candidate for mayor. Before becoming a politician, Zharkov became famous for his conviction for mistreatment of employees of the Olinesa factory. Stanimir Zharkov and the manager of “Olinesa” Hristo Krastev stripped the workers naked, cauterized their genitals with burning newspapers and extinguished cigarette butts on their bodies, the media write, which covered

the noisy process in 2000.

Apparently, Zharkov’s cruelty was broken after the conviction and this also manifests as a lack of material interest and the pursuit of profit for his company, which literally gave the expensive properties of the magistrates’ family.

There are other explanations for these transactions of a simulative nature. However, they imply unlawful actions. For example, that Bobby and his mother paid a real price, but under the table, with money of unclear origin. Or that the price is such because it is tied to a possible consideration from the empowered head of the family. This should interest both the tax authorities and the KPKONPI and the Prosecutor’s Office, whose deputy chief is Sarafov.

Our reporter found an up-to-date email address of Bobby Sarafov and sent him questions about the above deals. We did not receive any feedback until the editorial close of the article, but we will publish the response if it is received subsequently.

A million in Dubai and cheap property from money launderers

Bilyana Bobby Stoyanova, née Sarafova, is the sister of Deputy Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov. As BIRD.BG revealed, it is
Owner
of an apartment for over $ 1 million in Dubai.

In Bulgaria, son Bobby and his mother Evgenia continue to buy properties in the same Edelweiss complex, where in 2019 Bobby acquired two apartments. In 2020 and 2021, the ex-wife of Borislav Sarafov – Evgenia Tsvetkova Sarafova buys a studio 136.7 sq.m. and a garage of 23.5 sq.m. with their adjacent parts of a yard in the Edelweiss complex.

The atelier was purchased on 06.02.2020 at a price of 809 Euro/sq.m. when properties in the complex are offered at prices 1500-1600 Euro/sq.m. The garage was purchased in January 2021 for just under BGN 28,000.

The same year, in May, Sarafov’s son and ex-wife acquired adjacent parts of the yard. The total declared value of the properties acquired after 2019 of the two in Edelweiss complex is 290 882.60 BGN Thus, along with the previous BGN 540,000 counted by Bobby for the two apartments, the family’s possessions in Edelweiss became worth nearly BGN 800,000.

All these properties were sold to the family by the company “Edelweiss – 3 Boyana”

” Ltd. It is building the Edelweiss complex in Boyana with funding from the currently arrested and tried in Seychelles for embezzlement, money laundering and terrorism Mukesh Valabji, as

revealed by an investigation by BIRD at the end of last year.

Valabji’s Bulgarian partners are entrepreneur Hristo Chepishev and the founder of the SIC group. Mukesh is also the drug kingpin. Christoforos Amanatidis – Taki, as well as the brother of GERB MP and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rositsa Kirova – Konstantin Varbanov. Copies of the couple’s passports were found on Mukesh’s computer. The investigation is being led by the Seychelles Anti-Corruption Commission, as well as
We announced
in November 2022.

Independence: Politicians could not ask for the resignation of magistrates. But can they give them property?

The name of Borislav Sarafov again became popular last week because of the incident with the explosion next to the motorcade of his boss Ivan Geshev. Sarafov was on the front line in the media to explain how powerful the explosion was and how it was intended to kill Geshev and his family.

Subsequently, it was refuted by Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev. It turned out that neither Geshev’s family traveled with him, nor the explosion could overcome the protection of the armored car in which the Prosecutor General was.

On this occasion, PP-DB demanded Sarafov’s resignation, but he replied that politicians could not demand the resignation of an independent magistrate, just as he did not allow himself to demand the resignation of politicians.

“I want to make it clear that both I and most of my colleagues believe that the prosecution should step out of the political terrain where it has stepped deep and return to its natural environment – in defense of justice only within its institutional powers,” Deputy Prosecutor General Sarafov said in a position sent to BTA.

But the property gifts from politicians and the deep wading of prosecutorial relatives in lucrative construction sites rather create dependencies and feed doubts in society about an impure intertwining of interests between independent, on paper, authorities.

Leading photo: Complex “Ixora Residence” (construction), Borislav Sarafov – Deputy Prosecutor General and Director of NSlS (right)

Joint investigation of BIRD.BG and BIVOL.BG

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