{"id":28803,"date":"2022-06-24T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/?p=28803"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:37:54","slug":"dubaiuncovered-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/dubaiuncovered-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai: Rado Sun Partner Holds 6 Stores in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Revelations Dubai&#8221; shed light on <\/span><b>Vladimir Venelinov Lazarov<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  as the owner of 6 stores in Dubai. Partnership in 2 companies connects Lazarov with the underground boss Radostin Barzanov &#8211;  <\/span><b>Rado The Sun<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Aver of <\/span><b>Taki<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Vasil Iliev<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who inherited the business of the late visadzhiya Veselin Stoimenov &#8211; Vesso Debelia. Barzanov is also a partner with Taki&#8217;s sister &#8211; Aphrodite Borimirova and ended up with an offshore in the Pandora.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vladimir Lazarov<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  is the owner of 6 retail outlets with areas from 40 to 47 sq.m. in Al Warsan, International City in Dubai. The total property valuation is about  <\/span><b>$800,000<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Judging by passport data, Lazarov acquired the properties after 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brothers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=0E48741C94B691D91BC177B8581BFF40CD226D93703BCD8440B1563477BDA605\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anatoly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a> Lazarov <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=B660EEDC848ED12239A2827DC9D2A5226ADAA63BEDFC7B583EB7F54222E0F06E\"><b>Vladimir Lazarov<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are partners with Radostin Barzanov &#8211;<\/span><b> Rado the Sun<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=130492640\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tourist Sport Trade<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; Ltd. The manager of the company is Vladimir Lazarov. In recent years, the company has submitted a declaration to the Commercial Register that it does not operate. In another &#8216;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=130249026\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inert &#8211; Group<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ltd. the brothers Lazarovi and Barzanov were partners until 06.06.2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the new business ventures of the Lazarov brothers is warehouse areas in &#8220;Logistic Park Sofia&#8221; in the municipality of Elin Pelin. The project is on &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=204521789\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warehousing and Logistics<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a> Ltd<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., sole ownership<\/span> of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=131435445\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mania Build<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; Ltd. of the brothers and was built with credit financing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The underground bosses<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Radostin Barzanov &#8211; Rado The Sun<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  is a former bodyguard of Vasil Iliev and Taki, and is cited by the prosecution as the leader of the sinister drug gang &#8220;Hammers&#8221; of Taki. He currently has  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=102255851\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">joint business<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> together with Aphrodite Niko Borimirova &#8211; sister of <\/span><b>Christoforos Nikos Amanatidis &#8211; Taki<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barzanov has owned Noriada <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoreleaks.icij.org\/nodes\/240121691\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business Corp<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>. since 2013. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, registered in the Seychelles and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-barzanov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">revealed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Pandora Files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A curious detail is that Rado Sun&#8217;s <\/span> lawyer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bg\/crime\/deloto-sreshtu-chukovete-na-taki-pred-seriozen-zastoy.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">case against the &#8220;Hammers&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the lawyer of Boyko Borisov and his ministers <\/span><b>Menko Menkov<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; also with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-menkov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an offshore<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Pandora.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Golden&#8221; deal with Sofia Municipality<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Vladimir Lazarov<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and his brother Anatoly are the latest to get rich from <\/span> the <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scandalously inflated property valuations in Sofia, described in the<\/span> &#8220;<b>Feeder for Dodgers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; in 2011 by <\/span> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banker.bg\/upravlenie-i-biznes\/read\/hranilka-za-tarikati\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In the previous  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/dubaiuncovered-3\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A publication<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a> from &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Revelations Dubai&#8221; these were the sisters Gergana Simova and Elitsa Proshenska, who earned over BGN 1.7 million from a plot of Sofia Municipality, purchased earlier at 65 times lower price per square meter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brothers <\/span><b>Anatoly and Vladimir Lazarovi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  They are making a &#8220;golden&#8221; deal with the Metropolitan Municipality. They win  <\/span><b>1.6 million<\/b> from 320 square meters previously purchased at 20.55 leva per square <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meter and expropriated at 222 times higher price, or 5000.35 <\/span><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leva per square. <\/span><\/b> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, the Lazarov brothers had acquired through two deals a property of 2391 sq. The first one in 2001 is for 2\/3 ideal parts of it for the amount of BGN 30,000. The second in 2004 is for the remaining 1\/3 ideal part of the property for BGN 19 151.90. In  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/27hv7h76\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reconstruction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  on Bull. Todor Kableshkov from bul. Bulgaria to ul. Louis Ayer Sofia Municipality expropriates 320 sq. m of the brothers&#8217; property. The initial estimate is 502.90 per sq. m, but scandalous expertise inflates it ten times. The Lazarov brothers receive BGN 1 600 112. municipal funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dubious deal with NSSI for 6.5m euros Lv.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On December 19, 2008<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the<\/span> company &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=114635847\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mania Tawar&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; Ltd. sells several floors of the former hotel &#8220;Pleven&#8221;, reshaped to office building &#8220;Mania Tawar&#8221;, for offices of the NSSI Pleven. The price of the deal is EUR 3 288 000 or nearly BGN 6.5 million. The seller company is the sole property of &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=131264740\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiflik Holiday<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ltd., in which to this day partners are the brothers <\/span><b>Anatoly and Vladimir Lazarovi and<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Pleven businessman Ognyan Lambiev. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total area of the purchased offices is 2270 sq. m. (rooms in the basement, on floor 3 and hotel rooms \/ offices on floors 8, 9 and 10). The deal is 1,450 euros per sq. m. or much above the market price of properties in the center of Pleven then. The sale is entered in the Property Register at a tax assessment of just over BGN 535,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The then manager of the NSSI Yordan Hristoskov submitted a note for the purchase of separate premises for the needs of the NSSI Pleven. The Supervisory Board approves the much more expensive option with offices in Mania Tawar for nearly BGN 6.5 million. The other option was $2.8 million. Lv. to purchase the premises used until then. The suspicious deal was investigated by the Sofia City Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13840 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/noi-mania-tower.png?resize=1080%2C1510&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/noi-mania-tower.png?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/noi-mania-tower.png?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/noi-mania-tower.png?resize=732%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/noi-mania-tower.png?resize=768%2C1074&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/noi-mania-tower.png?resize=990%2C1384&amp;ssl=1 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far in &#8220;Revelations Dubai&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The international investigation #DubaiUncovered (&#8220;Revelations Dubai&#8221;) reveals over 240 Bulgarian citizens and residents who own properties worth over $ 160 million in Dubai. So far, they have  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/uncovereddubai-1\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  property data of the MP&#8217;s mother  <\/span><b>Delyan Peevski<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, of the building boss  <\/span><b>Veliko Zhelev<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to the sister of the Deputy Attorney General  <\/span><b>Borislav Sarafov<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the builder of our pavilion for &#8220;Expo 2020&#8221; in Dubai<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/dubaiuncovered-2\/\"><b>Ralitsa Ivanova<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  and and the the  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/dubaiuncovered-3\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sisters<\/span><\/a> <b>Gergana Simova<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  \u0438  <\/span><b>Elitsa Proshenska<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The &#8220;Dubai Disclosures&#8221; investigation is based on data on more than 800,000 records from Dubai&#8217;s land registry, which date back to 2020 and were obtained from C4ADS (Washington, D.C.-based Centre for Advanced Defence Research). They were shared with Norwegian financial centre E24, which coordinates the real estate investigation together with 20 investigative media, including  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/les-decodeurs\/article\/2022\/05\/03\/l-immobilier-de-dubai-un-havre-pour-l-argent-des-oligarques-et-des-criminels_6124532_4355770.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le Monde<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, the Danish TV2 and OCCRP. As part of the network of  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/investigations\/dubai-uncovered-data-leak-exposes-how-criminals-officials-and-sanctioned-politicians-poured-money-into-dubai-real-estate\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OCCRP<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> BIRD is the Bulgarian partner in the project.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning! This is an automatic translation from Bulgarian. 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