{"id":29186,"date":"2022-04-19T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/?p=29186"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:38:34","slug":"pandora-barzanov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/pandora-barzanov\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora files reveal offshore of Rado the Sun &#8211; underground boss, Taki and Vasil Iliev&#8217;s aver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">underground boss <\/span><b>Radostin Barzanov &#8211; Rado The Sun<\/b>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an aver of Taki and Vasil Iliev, who inherited the business of the late visadzhiya Veselin Stoimenov &#8211; Vesso Debeliya, has been the owner of the offshore 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, the Pandora Files reveal. The offshore company has no activity in Bulgaria, a check in the Commercial Register showed. Barzanov is associated with  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=28A7666ABF774C2399763D40F0D4FAB96F24EF03937E73592BF99B285590CD98&amp;p2=1\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13 companies<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Bulgaria, one of which is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=102255851\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a partner<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Taki&#8217;s sister &#8211; Aphrodite Borimirova.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The international consortium of investigative journalists ICIJ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/investigations\/pandora-papers\/alpha-offshore-leaks-database-pandora-papers-russia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">updated<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a> the database of the <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pandora Files with a new large portion of names from Seychelles <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/investigations\/pandora-papers\/secrecy-brokers\/?broker=alpha-consulting-limited\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alpha Consulting Ltd<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which serves offshore registrations and accounts mainly of Russian clients. The documents leaked by Alpha are over 820,000 and cover the period 1996-2020. Among the new dozens of names of Bulgarians in the database, besides Radostin Barzanov, are: the relatives of a lawyer  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-mondeshki-1\/\"><b>Momchil Mondeshki<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,  <\/span><b>trusted person of Delyan Peevski<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Businessman and politician  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-bedel-havalyov\/\"><b>Arben Khavalev<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,  <\/span><b>close to Ahmed Dogan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Ivan Stamenov&#8217;s brother from &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/stoicev-stamenov-evroto\/\"><b>The Eight Dwarfs<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;; the financial fraudster  <\/span><b>Ilan Zorya<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, partner of  <\/span><b>&#8220;The Wolf of Sofia&#8221; by Gal Barak<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which we have already informed about, as well as many others.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registrations in the ICIJ Pandora Files database:  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoreleaks.icij.org\/nodes\/240131059\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arben Khavalev<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoreleaks.icij.org\/nodes\/240131977\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgi Stamenov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoreleaks.icij.org\/nodes\/240132375\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mladen Mondeshki<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoreleaks.icij.org\/nodes\/240131685\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Petko Mondeshki<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoreleaks.icij.org\/nodes\/240132067\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radostin Barzanov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  and others.<\/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. Barzanov is cited by the prosecutor&#8217;s office as the leader of Taki&#8217;s sinister drug gang &#8220;Hammers&#8221;. He currently has <a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/tr\/?v=view&amp;guid=102255851\">a joint business<\/a> with Aphrodite Niko Borimirova, who is the sister of Christoforos Nikos Amanatidis &#8211; Taki.  <\/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<figure id=\"attachment_11221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11221\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11220 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/radostin-barzanov.jpg?resize=650%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/radostin-barzanov.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/radostin-barzanov.jpg?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/radostin-barzanov.jpg?resize=260%2C210&amp;ssl=1 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radostin Barzanov &#8211; Rado The Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rado The Sun survived a failed bombing in 2015. Barzanov and those close to him acquired hotels and restaurants in Sunny Beach for tens of millions of levs. The large-scale change of ownership took place after the execution of Veselin Stoimenov &#8211; Vesso the Debel.  <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11218\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11217 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/veselin-stoimenov.jpg?resize=630%2C454&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/veselin-stoimenov.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bird.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/veselin-stoimenov.jpg?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veselin Stoimenov &#8211; Vesso the Fat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shooting of Veselin Stoimenov &#8211; Vesso the Fat on January 7, 2016 is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/daily\/4805-bulgaria-businessman-with-suspected-mob-ties-shot-dead-in-sofia\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reflected<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  OCCRP is the world&#8217;s largest network of investigative journalists against corruption and organized crime. Stoimenov is known as a liquidator of VIS-2 and owner of the numerous properties and establishments of the group after the death of Georgi Iliev. In 2013  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/ropotamo-mosv.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">publication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  Bivol revealed illegal construction in the Ropotamo reserve, carried out by a company of Stoimenov. In 2014, another  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/ropotamo-reservat-mutri.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bivol&#8217;s publication also revealed the scandalous contract for boat trips on the lower reaches of Ropotamo, a state umbrella and lawlessness in the occupied reserve.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bulgarian politicians in the Pandora Files revealed so far are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-papers-peevski-1\/\"><b>Delyan Peevski<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-papers-mladenov\/\"><b>Nickolay Mladenov<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-barekov\/\"><b>Nikolay Barekov<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-bedel-havalyov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arben Havalev<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In addition, the files include large financiers, lawyers, individuals associated with multimillion-dollar fraudulent schemes, but also entrepreneurs with regular business, with no visible political protections, who have registered offshore companies and have announced them to the Bulgarian authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigation of the BIRD.BG also revealed the secret offshore companies of the owners of First Investment Bank <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/pandora-fibank\/\"><br \/>\n  <b>Tseko Minev and Ivaylo Mutafchiev<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who over the years have received loans of over a billion leva from their own bank. Their offshore companies have also been used in schemes for racketeering the business with final beneficiary Delyan Peevski.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pandora Files contains data from 14 offshore registration and maintenance companies whose files have been leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). To study this array of nearly 12 million documents, the consortium brought together 600 journalists from around the world for a global investigation called the Pandora-Files. BIRD.BG is the Bulgarian partner in this investigation, which is the largest coordinated cooperation of investigative journalists to date.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning! This is an automatic translation from Bulgarian. The translation has not been checked by the editor desk and may be inaccurate or ambiguous. 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