Bulgaria: The Investigation into the Murder of Alexei Petrov Continues (UPDATED)

The investigation into the murder of Alexei Petrov continues. The motives for the crime remain unclear.

The businessman and former beret Alexei Petrov was shot yesterday during a walk in a wooded area above the capital's "Dragalevtsi" district.

According to unofficial information, the killer used a rifle with an optical sight. So far, investigators have neither confirmed nor denied this.

This is not the first attempt to assassinate him, there were two other attempts before that. According to criminologists and analysts, the motive for the crime may be hidden in his past and may be about money, revenge or settling the score straight.

"One possible motive is some kind of revenge, the other motive is currently an actual settlement of accounts due to some exercise of influence - it could be business influence, it could be unspoken underground influence, it could even be political influence," said Ivan Savov - criminologist .

"On the one hand, it's about money, it's also about ego, and it's about the fact that when two people who have the opportunity to organize such things and targeted killings, the situation is such that one of them has to overtake the other," said Slavi Angelov - investigative journalist.

Tihomir Bezlov: The motives for the murder can be found in the past of Alexei Petrov

Tihomir Bezlov from the Center for the Study of Democracy said on BNT that due to similarities with the previous assassination attempts against Alexei Petrov, the motives for the murder can be sought in the businessman's past. But he himself thinks that it is more likely to be about his activities lately.

"People see a similarity in the approach to the murder of Alexei Petrov. They think...