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State Institutions Are "Drained" Like Private Companies 02.12.2009

"In previous mandates state institutions were "captured from the inside" and "drained" of their financial resources like private companies.," said Executive Director Stefan Popov a day after RiskMonitor's conference "Organized Crime and Political Process". "We understood this through several drastic cases like SAPARD, the Road Agency, "Toplofikacia". In reality the process has been massive in this...

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SANS Reports Sound Like Chitchat 29.10.2009

Mr. Popov comments on the latest document that has been made public: "One cannot call this paper a document. It is incredible that a contemporary intelligence is involved in such gossiping”. The report reflects the catastrophic level of the informational-analytic activities performed by the Bulgarian intelligence service. "An Agency which produces reports of this kind cannot be trusted...

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One Billion Euros is the Annual Revenue Generated from Human Trafficking 14.04.2009

Georgi Petrunov Bulgarian National Radio, Hristo Botev Program, 14 April 2009 The annual revenues generated from human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation are about 1 billion euros and at least half of this sum is returned in Bulgaria. RiskMonitor’s Georgi Petrunov shared this data. in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio. This and other findings were presented ...

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“Buying” Votes: All Too Logical 08.07.2008

The 2007 local elections in Bulgaria will not be the last in which votes are bought, said former Sofia ombudsman Antoaneta Tconeva, who presented her report “Mayors on Lease” today. The report was prepared under a RiskMonitor project. According to Antoaneta Tsoneva and her colleague Svetoslav Georgiev, the “buying” of votes is the logical result of five factors. The fi...

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