The Vignettes of Change

A former company of Assen Vassilev has blocked accounts because of a claim of an American citizen for BGN 5 million., but managed to save her properties with a lucrative deal. The buyer is the company of Stanislava Arnaudova, known as the Queen of Vignettes – a privileged intermediary, collecting 7% of each vignette. Despite the requests to change this percentage, so far there has been no change and the commissions are still going. In addition, Arnaudova in her personal capacity has acquired a property of Daniel Lorer for a record price, which leads to the hypothesis of consideration.

The rescue of Minister Vassilev

On December 29, 2023 Mario Ivanov Sotirov, manager and current owner of “STV Consulting” EOOD, as well as an associate of “We Continue the Change”, and Minister Vassilev, submitted to the Commercial Register the application submitted the day before to the court for declaring the company bankrupt.

The reason for this is that on 17.11.2023, American citizen Sebastian Bretschneider received a precautionary order from the court for over BGN 5 million. (5 013 317.86), issued in his name, and has imposed a seizure of the company’s accounts.

However, Bretschneider’s claims to other assets of the company were prudently neutralized two months earlier. On September 7, 2023 ” STV Consulting“Sells the yard and five properties in a building on Str. 3 Chataldzha Street in Sofia for nearly BGN 3 million. And three months after that it went bankrupt.

The first symptoms of problems of STV Consulting appeared in the summer of 2023, when the company was briefly indebted to the NRA, initially being registered with nearly 30 thousand. BGN. Obligations to the treasury. After in August The “savior” of “STV Consulting” is the famous “Queen of Vignettes” Stanislava Arnaudova

. Тя плаща над BGN 3 million. for the so-called. “office of the Change” of Chataldzha. However, the money evaporated in an unknown direction and Sebastian Bretschneider managed to block only BGN 561,790.

The full text of the application to the court can be downloaded and viewed from the file of STV Consulting EOOD in the Commercial Register. Mario Sotirov is a long-time manager of companies of Asen Vassilev, as well as of STV Holdings EOOD and STV Bulgaria

” Ltd. – both owned by the offshore company “Akselbert” (Akselbert Ltd), registered in the British Virgin Islands. As we revealed in our publication earlier, the offshore company is still owned by the Minister of Finance Asen Vaskov Vassilev, according to the information in the Commercial Register. In addition, the two companies have not submitted financial statements in the last three years and are in violation.

Дума срещу документ: Според Търговския регистър Асен Василев продължава да има офшорка. Той отрича

Stanislava Arnaudova is the majority owner of the company “Intelligent Traffic Systems” AD, which received in a dubious way intermediary rights to sell vignettes of the BGToll system with a commission of 7%. In the public space, she is associated with Boris Markov, former chairman of the UDF and an employee of the Austrian Kaptsch, which built the toll system with a scandalous contract and continues to maintain it for millions more.

Lorer’s deal with BGN 1.5 million. profit

However, that’s not all. Arnaudova also makes a deal with Daniel Lorer, MP from “PPDB” and a former minister from “We Continue the Change” in the cabinet of Kiril Petkov. He also has properties in this building of Ul. “Chataldzha” 3 in Sofia. Lorer sold them on the same day as STV Holdings, but to Arnaudova in a personal capacity. He sells them at a huge profit.

Lorer’s property was bought by STV Consulting for BGN 351,950. a little more than a year ago. Then he is Minister of Innovation from the Change. On 07.09.2023, Lorer sells the property for BGN 1,858,038.50.

Daniel Lorer bought the property from STV Consulting in the building that became known as the “Office of the Change” on Slivnitsa Street. 3 Chataldzha Street in April 2022, while minister. The property is declared on the last two lines (2 x 175 975 BGN) in the table of properties in its final declaration.

Change, but another time…

The outrageous commissions of the intermediaries in the trade in state vignettes became the reason for parliamentary questions to the caretaker Minister of Regional Development Ivan Shishkov, who revealed that they had received over BGN 110 million in profit from the resale of vignettes. There were intentions to reduce their commission from 7% to 3%, which, however, sank into oblivion. And Arnaudova’s multimillion-dollar deals with leading politicians from the Change Party are an indicator that no change is in sight for this lucrative business.

The innovative approach of the politicians from the Change, compared to their coalition partners from GERB, is also impressive. While under GERB we had a well-developed scheme for buying cheap properties at a tax assessment so as not to show undeclared income, under the Change we have sales of properties at record prices, which smell of reciprocal consideration for corruption services. In both cases, the abuse is visible as a louse on the forehead, but very difficult to prove.

Lead photo (from left to right): Asen Vassilev, Daniel Lorer, Stanislava Arnaudova

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