{"id":26501,"date":"2021-01-24T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/?p=26501"},"modified":"2023-04-06T23:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T21:51:55","slug":"borisovs-astrologer-for-the-boutique-in-barcelona-ask-the-chief-architect-of-sofia-zdravko-zdravkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/borisovs-astrologer-for-the-boutique-in-barcelona-ask-the-chief-architect-of-sofia-zdravko-zdravkov\/","title":{"rendered":"Borisov’s astrologer: “For the boutique in Barcelona ask the chief architect of Sofia Zdravko Zdravkov”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The chief architect of Sofia , Zdravko Zdravkov<\/strong> , was involved in the change of ownership of Borislava Yovcheva’s<\/strong> luxury boutique in Barcelona. Borislava allegedly has a child from the former PM Boyko Borisov. This is according to Svetoslav Spasov<\/strong>, a former adviser to Boyko Borisov and a diplomat in Vienna. As BRRD revealed<\/a> , his ex-wife Desislava Hristova<\/strong> acquired in March last year the Spanish company EMA BGS SL, which owned the luxury boutique Ermanno Scervino of Paseo de Gracia, the most expensive shopping street in the Catalan capital.<\/p>\n

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Ermanno Scervino’s boutique in Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The boutique is part of the assets of the former Miss Bikini, who is said to have a sentimental relationship with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and a child with him. Since 2012, Yovcheva and her family have been living a luxurious lifestyle in Barcelona, where they live in a house for 3 million euros. Because of the unclear origins of her welfare, Catalan police MOSSOS D’Esquadra and Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor’s office have launched a money laundering investigation at the behest of DG BOETS, according to an extensive publication by the Spanish newspaper El Periodico<\/a> in February last year. <\/p>\n

Prime Minister Borissov rejected claims that he was related to Yovcheva’s mysterious enrichment, but did not deny that he knew her. The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office launched a probe, which was soon completed with a refusal to initiate pre-trial proceedings. However, the scandal did not subside and spread to the European Parliament. In September last year, the issue entered the agenda of the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee. MEPs from the Monitoring Group on Democracy and the Rule of Law (DRFMG) sent several questions to Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, including a question at what stage the investigation gained popularity as “Barcelonagate”. The same issue was included in a new LIBE inquiry to the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office<\/a> on January 8 this year. <\/p>\n

The company EMA BGS SL has come to the attention of Spanish investigators because, according to them, Yovcheva exercised “functions of management and control” in the store that belonged to this company. It is assumed that the company was named after Yovcheva’s child Emma, for which there was no information in the Spanish registers who the father was. The capital of EMA BGS SL of EUR 1.75 million comes from the offshore company Palms Enterprises Overseas, linked to Borisov’s associates, as well as from Borislava Yovcheva’s father. The latter invested 1 million euros and it is not clear where he got this money, as until his resettlement in the Catalan capital he was an ordinary electrician. The origin of the working money of the company that trades in the expensive goods of the Italian designer in the most expensive place in Barcelona – Pasao de Gracia, is also unclear. According to investigators, it was more than 600,000 euros.<\/p>\n

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Palms Enterprises Overseas Limited is registered in Cyprus with a nominal owner, but in Bulgaria it is represented by businessman Yordan Hristov. His wife Silvia Nikolova<\/strong> was the manager of EMA BGS SL. Hristov has a joint business project with Ivan Sazdov<\/strong>, who is among Borisov’s most trusted people. Hristov was also famous for marrying Borislava Yovcheva a few days before the publication of El Periodico.<\/p>\n

The publication in “El Periodico” is dated February 21, 2020. Five days earlier, on February 16, 2020, Borislava Yovcheva and Yordan Hristov officially became spouses. In his comments about the scandal, Prime Minister Borissov said he had been warned at least a week before the publication and expected it to come out. It was in this time range that Yovcheva and the 38 years older than her Hristov married in a regime of divided community property. This fact reinforces suspicions that the marital relations between the two are fictitious and in order to distract the public and the investigators from Borisov’s role in the Barcelona affair. <\/p>\n