The “Srebrenica” scandal unfolded after the caretaker Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dimitar Glavchev changed Bulgaria’s position in the UN vote on the resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica. Опитите впоследствие да се замаже този безпрецедентен гаф гравитира около един ключов въпрос – защо го е направил. Отговорът на въпроса „защо“ засега няма друго обяснение, освен натрупалите се в недалечното минало и добре документирани факти за съпричастност на Boyko Borisov to the biography of the famous Serbian mafia Sreten Josic, as well as the worries about Borisov from these connections, reaching panic fear.

But the “Srebrenica” case, unexpectedly for the participants in it, unlocked other, hitherto closed drawers and their contents received another certificate of authenticity. This is the case with a very large amount of state money that has been paid to businessmen close to Srete This happened in the form of deals for the purchase of weapons from Serbia for VMZ Sopot. Millions of dollars were paid in advance by the Bulgarian factory, to a low-grade Serbian company with symbolically small capital, in order to supply our arms manufacturer ….. weapons, and at a price several times higher than the one that the market corresponds to. Weapons that were never delivered. В схемата пряко прозира и участието на Delyan Peevski.

2009: “Boyko took the money…”

“We Serbs are an extremely dirty nation. We will chase him to the end. He is finished, but he doesn’t know it yet!” – this is the remark of the infamous Montenegrin bandit Budimir Kujovic to our reporter during a visit to the Sofia Central Prison 11 years ago. From what? He (the policeman) has a family, children…” At that time, Budimir Kujović was serving a 16-year sentence for drug trafficking through Bulgaria, and his fame was that he was the right hand and closest person to Sreten Josic in here. Kujović told how he gave large sums to senior Bulgarian politicians and members of the government.

The conversation with Kujović was about the relationship of his boss Josic with the then Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, pointed out as a potential “finished”. Minutes after the conversation, several DANS cars poured into the prison, and Kujović could never see our reporter again.

The topic of Sreten Josic periodically pops up in the public space and always in the context of public scandals. For example, in 2013, MP Hristo Bisserov from the MRF called on Boyko Borisov from the parliamentary rostrum to demand the declassification of the Folder “Tulip”. В нея пишело как един подземен бос казва:

“Boyko took the money!”

The reason for Bisserov’s statement was Borisov’s accusations that Ahmed Dogan had ordered it.

Four years earlier, Bisserov chaired a special parliamentary committee on Sreten Josic and mentioned the “Tulip” case as the “Flower” case. According to him, this folder contained data from “a high-ranking representative of the underworld, who is already deceased as a result of a real attack.”

“It is he who says that Boyko took the money. We do not know who Boyko is, we do not know what this money is, but the words were said a day before the arrest of Sreten Josic and the materials on this conversation are precisely in the case of Sreten Josic,” says Bisserov.

From comments on the sidelines of the parliament, it became clear that the folder “Tulip” was dedicated to the relationship between the former boss of SIC Milcho Bonev – Bai Mile, and Sreten Josic. Replica “Boyko took the money” was uttered by Bai Mile before he was shot on July 30, 2004 in the restaurant of the Slavia Hotel in Sofia.

A parliamentary committee in Bulgaria came after Sreten Josic spoke before the court in Belgrade about his stay in Bulgaria.

“I was safe in Bulgaria. I was protected by their security services, Boyko Borisov, who later became mayor of Sofia, and Nikolay Gigov – the owner of the Lokomotiv football club, with whom I was connected through business, because he was a legal arms dealer,” Josic said at the time.

It was in the course of the trial that the accusations against Josic that he was involved in the murder of Bai Mile were made public. Защитеният свидетел Tomislav Marianović testified that Slobodan Djurović, who is close to Josić, ordered the murder of Milcho Bonev, and also that he promised 1.5 million euros for the murder of Croatian investigative journalist Ivo Pukanić.

Boyko Borisov and Nikolaycho Gigov

The reason for the murder of Milcho Bonev – Bai Mile was that he had failed to stop the extradition of Sreten Josic. The money – $ 3 million – was taken by the then Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Boyko Borisov, who, however, reneged and extradited Sreten Josic to the Netherlands.

Borissov, of course, denied what Sreten Josic said and pointed out that his extradition was his merit: “During my work as Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Sreten Josic was searched, detained and extradited to the Netherlands at the request of the Dutch government.”. He refused to appear in court in Belgrade as a witness, although he was summoned.

Sreten Josic and Milorad Djurovic in court in Belgrade. Photo: RTS

Djurovic is currently serving a 15-year sentence for the murder of Ivo Pukanić. More recently, an investigation into OCCRP revealed that the payment for the attack on the Croatian journalist was financed by an offshore company of Bulgarian businessman Ognyan Bozarov. The murder of Milcho Bonev – Bai Mile can be argued that it is still unsolved, as all those accused for it were acquitted by the Bulgarian court.

2018: Pushitsa took the money

In July 2018, the state-owned company Vazovsky Machine-Building Plants VMZ-Sopot signed a contract with the Serbian company VIP Global Logistic for1,360 pieces of old Soviet anti-tank missiles “Konkurs”, at a price of $ 15,000 or a total of $ 20.4 million.

These missiles were traded at that time at $ 8,000 apiece. If completed, this deal practically means a deliberately planned loss (lost profit) for the state-owned company of more than $8 million. In order to justify the somewhat unprofitable deal with the arms garbage, VMZ made a fictitious counter-contract with a Cypriot offshore company PPP Global Consultant Trustees LTD, according to information from internal sources from the state-owned company.

But the deal on the “purchase” has not been completed to date. $10.2 million was paid in advance to , but the missiles never came. To this day, the transferred millions are hanging in the balance sheet of VMZ – Sopot, which is subordinate to the State Consolidation Company.

It seems that the Serbs simply took the money transferred in advance and did not even bother to organize the deliveries in order to “earn” the difference of eight million.

Formally, VIP Global Logistic is owned by Nemanja Marijan, who is the right-hand man of the Serbian businessman with a controversial reputation Milorad – Miča Pušica. Пушица е считан за приближен едновременно на сръбския президент Aleksandar Vučić and Sreten Josić, who is serving a 15-year sentence and will soon be released. In 2018, Pušica and his wife attended the funeral of Sreten Josić’s father, along with many associates and friends of the mafia boss. Milorad Pušica is also a prominent member of Vučić’s SNS party.

Milorad Pušica

Several media outlets (Frognews and Gallery newspaper) published information about VMZ’s scandalous deal, as well as allegations that it was a form of change to Sreten Josic for the three million that disturbed Borisov’s sleep.

There is no concrete evidence of such a ransom arrangement, but it is a fact that, on the one hand, there is no market logic in the deal, and on the other hand, that the business connections of Pushitsa and his Bulgarian partners point precisely to persons associated on the one hand with Joca Amsterdam, as Sreten Josic is known, and on the other hand with Boyko Borisov. It is also an indisputable fact that we have over $ 10 million of state money, stolen practically through a shady and unprofitable and unrealistic deal, in which VMZ wants to “buy” Soviet weapons from an unknown and decapitalized Serbian company, which in turn would buy this weapon from …. Kyrgyzstan. At a price many times inflated, which in turn will then be resold by VMZ to some completely unknown Cypriot offshore company and… the last one to close the door. As a result, we have Bulgarian state money paid actually to the Serbian bandits and NO weapons in VMZ. A classic crime under the Criminal Code of Bulgaria for favoring on a particularly large scale and causing huge damage to the budget in personal interest. Naturally, as it is symptomatic – the Prosecutor’s Office in this case for the protection of the Law and the State interest simply does not exist! The genetics of such draining and theft should be investigated by the intelligence and the State Agency for National Security in depth, because it may turn out that the interests are much deeper than ordinary theft, but affect persons who determine and can influence the foreign policy of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Bivol sent questions to VMZ-Sopot about what is happening with the deliveries under this deal, but did not receive an answer. Sources of the media claim that all ministers of economy from 2018 until now are aware of the case.

Gigov, Chernogorac, Pušica

In the Bulgarian Commercial Register, Pushika is listed as Pushika and is a partner with the arms dealer Nikolaycho Gigov in the company “Delta Trans 2016“. It was established in 2016 and is apparently inactive, even accumulating debts to the NRA.

Gigov is especially close to Borisov and his most loyal people from GERB. His daughter is a parliamentary assistant to the MEP from GERB Emil Radev, and he and Radev traveled to Libya, where they offered Libyan officials to release the arrested tanker BADR for a ransom.

Nikolaycho Gigov and Emil Radev at a meeting with officials in Libya.

A key figure and a link in the affair with the missing millions is Petar Chernogorac (Crnogorski) – a long-time business partner of Milorad Pušica and Nikolaycho Gigov, with whom they have made numerous arms deals in Serbia and Bulgaria.

Евродепутатът Емил Радев искал от либийците 4,5 милиона евро за освобождаването на танкера БАДР

Sreten Josic also spoke about arms deals with Nikolaycho Gigov. According to him, before the court in Belgrade, Gigov was a legal arms dealer, and he was associated with a business.

“A little strange, but what to do, such was the cooperation,” says Sreten Josic.

Nikolaycho Gigov admits that he knows Sreten, but as Marko. He denies making arms deals with him and claims that the two made transfers of football players. A classic in the genre.

Peevski’s role

It seems that Petar Chernogorac’s phone was compromised and the information from it was leaked. In April this year, the Serbian investigative portal KRIK publishes chats between Montenegro and Milorad Pušica. KRIK claims, based on this leaked communication, that Pušica controlled an arms company through which US and British sanctions against Russia were circumvented. But in the leaked chats of Montenegro there is also information that connects Delyan Peevski with the scandalous deal of VMZ.

On June 19, 2020, in the midst of the protests against Borisov’s government, Peevski’s lawyer Alexander (Sasho) Angelov sent a message to Chernogorac, informing him with concern that changes were taking place and that the deal should be completed.

A leaked message from the phone of Petar Chernogorac, received by lawyer. Sasho Angelov.

Sasho Angelov was exposed by Bivol as the owner of offshore companies associated with Peevski’s interests. One of them is “Viafot”, which fought for the control of the Dunarit arms factory. /линк/

https://bivol.bg/panama-papers-viafot.html Бащата на адвокат Александър Ангелов е Параскев Параскевов

– a long-time employee and officer of the State Security. He was a high-ranking official of the VGU – Second Main Directorate of the State Security, which was mainly engaged in the control of the notorious foreign trade companies of the communist regime.

The structure in question was responsible for the counterintelligence support of foreign companies with engineering orientation of various state economic associations such as Bulgargeomin, Technoexportstroy, Montagi, Elektrokomplekt, the Committee of Geology, etc. This list also includes the emblematic foreign trade company “Inko”, where the career of Tsvetelina Borislavova, who is especially close to Boyko Borisov, also known by her nickname “The Daughter of State Security“, beganIt was through such companies that billions were siphoned off from the state at the end of communism, and subsequently these national assets went through complex schemes owned by cadres of the former top nomenklatura and State Security. It is no coincidence that Paraskev Paraskevov ends his career as deputy. Director of In the first years after the “changes” in 1989, the senior cop has been working for a company of Nikolaycho Gigov in recent years. Параскевов представлява и адвокатската кантора “Aviora”, which financially and legally serves Delyan Peevski in Bulgaria and in the United States, where he was sanctioned for corruption under the Magnitsky Act. Under the contracts for servicing Peevski in the Magnitsky case with American lobbying companies, The signature of… Paraskev Paraskevov.

След Пеевски, “Магнитски” трябва да удари кукловодите му. И #Лустрация!!!

The tandem Gigov – Peevski

on the Bulgarian side, he helped the Serbian tandem Montenegro – Pušica to take control of the glass factory in Paračin, credited by Corpbank. Montenegro pays the debts of the factory at the time of about $ 4 million, and Milorad Pušica then became chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Obviously, in the summer of 2020, when the SMS was sent, Peevski and Angelov, respectively, were nervous about the prospect of the protests leading to changes that Peevski could not control and to the disclosure of this criminal deal. But this danger for them quickly passes. Despite the threats of “clean hands” operation by the parties that rode the protests, this did not happen. On the contrary, they formed a coalition with Borisov and Peevski, did everything possible to stop all checks and investigations against them.

At the moment, the deal of VMZ is being dealt with by the State Agency for National Security and the Prosecutor’s Office. There is no evidence of any work done by the two institutions, although the case is more than clear and proven as a corruption drain of the state-owned arms enterprise with many millions of dollars. The institutions, especially the Prosecutor’s Office, are known to be under the control of the corpulent MP and his Siamese counterpart – Borisov. Results for solving this huge crime are logically not expected, but it must become public and internationally public.

The missing millions from VMZ – Sopot and the “Srebrenica” scandal once again point to the same addressees – Borisov, Peevski and Serbian figures from the underground with thick political connections beyond Kalotina. Worrying are the doubts that the latter manage to influence Bulgarian politics and control Bulgarian politicians through vulnerabilities, which directly affects the security interests and authority not only of Bulgaria, but also of its partners.

Bivol team. A team of BIRD.BG

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Материалът Srebrenica, Sreten Josić and the missing millions from VMZ-Sopot е публикуван за пръв път на BIRD.