Delyan Peevski

Notorious Bulgarian oligarch and politician Delyan Peevski was summoned today at 1 pm to State Agency for National Security

Minutes ago, he entered the agency building for questioning.

Bulgaria's Anti-Corruption Commission, the National Revenue Agency and the State Agency for National Security have started inspecting the property of the former MP from MRF party, Delyan Peevski. He is one of two Bulgarians on the lists of the international investigation for funds and property in offshore companies Pandora Papers. 

Delyan Peevski in parliament in Sofia in May 2013. Photo: EPA/STR.

During his time as a MP in 2013, Peevski was involved in three offshore companies which he has not declared, according to the massive leak of data to media from companies used by rich clients around the world to hide wealth in tax havens.

The condition of "We continue the change" to GERB and MRF to hold talks on possible post-election rule are such that they are almost impossible: MRF to break with ex-MP Peevski, and GERB to support the replacement of Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev. This was commented in an tv interview by the co-founder of the formation and former minister Kiril Petkov.

DPS is ready to participate in government only with GERB and BSP.

Bulgaria's winning party in the July elections, the political newcomer "There is Such a Nation", received a mandate to form a government from President Rumen Radev on Friday and proposed businessman Plamen Nikolov for its choice of Prime Minister.

Democratic Bulgaria supports the steps taken by caretaker Minister of Justice Yanaki Stoilov for the dismissal of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev.

Bulgaria's Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation requested of the US Department of State additional information on the case of imposing sanctions on three Bulgarian nationals under the Magnitsky Act.

Vassil Bojkov, oligarch in exile and head of the Bulgarian Summer party. Source: Facebook/VassilKrumovBojkov.

The Finance Ministry said the companies and individuals might be affected in the near future by the US's Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which freezes the assets of people linked to corruption and human rights abuses and bars them from entering the US.

The Bulgarian Finance Ministry on Tuesday published a longlist of the persons who fall, or could potentially fall, within the scope of sanctions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) with the US Department of the Treasury.