The scheme of Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint – among the largest for the decade?

Information about schemes carried out at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint and people involved was sent to the editorial email of Iskra.bg. The email comes a day after we distributed a detailed article about the border crossing and the assistance provided by MP Konstantin Bachiyski and representatives of the Organization for the Protection of Bulgarian Citizens (OPBC) to improve the situation and restore law and order at the border.

According to the data in the email, the scheme can be defined as among those of the decade, because the state has been damaged and hundreds of millions have sunk into private pockets. And all this happened during the rule of GERB and MRF. The scheme is a typical example of politicians and government officials who have sold the national interest to benefit themselves and those close to them, the sender said.

The email in question contains information about several people connected with “Eurolab 2011”, the company that used to carry out phytosanitary control at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint. One of them is the manager and owner Vasil Dimitrov Dimitrov, who is said to be a fictitious person and „does what he is told“. He was „faithful and executive.“

We remind you that Dimitrov distributed an open letter to the media, stating that in February he came into contact with „a person close and directly related to a famous Bulgarian businessman, whose name is associated with organized crime since the transition.“ He told him that the businessman in question wanted to „take“ his business. He offered to sell it at a price set by him. It was his signal that provoked a sitting of the Anti-Corruption Commission in the National Assembly. It was closed, but after that it became clear that oligarchs were mentioned, the name of Razmig Kerope Chakaryan-Ami, Hristoforos Nikos Amanatidis-Taki, bribes and even threats to the life of the Deputy Minister.

The data on the suspicious activity of „Eurolab 2011“ at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint are not new. As early as 2015, Capital announced that it represented the Food Agency and was attached to the feeder with the testing of agricultural products. At that time, the laboratory belonged to „Interpred Eurologistics“. In turn, this company is owned by Interpred-BG, in which co-owners through „Progressive Business Development“ are Razmig Kerope Chakaryani Miroslav Borislavov Petkov, who in the past had joint ventures with municipal officials from GERB.

In the email sent to Iskra.bg, Chakaryan is said to have a parking lot for 500 trucks, his is the „golden puddle“ of „Kapitan Andreevo“, and he owns other profitable businesses. On this occasion, we remind you that in July 2021 Maya Manolova announced that foreign trucks are directed to the parking lot, where they pay 24 euros. She did not reveal who owns the parking lot in question. On the other hand, according to her, more than 50 employees wearing signal vests were sent to storm her car and persuade her not to deal with private sites at the border. According to BIRD.BG, the private parking lot belongs to IBT, the sole owner of the capital of which is Progressive Building 2016 EOOD, Chakaryan’s company.

Taki’s name was also mentioned at a closed meeting of the Commission for Prevention and Combating Corruption. During it, Konstantin Bachiyski asked the owner of “Eurolab 2011” the following:

„Hello, Mr. Dimitrov. From your signal and from your public statements, I understand that you have taken up this activity since the beginning of the year, and before that you worked at Interpred Eurologistics, which has been doing the same activity for the last 10 years. are filed with your company are represented by the same attorney who represents other companies related to the same owners. That is why I want to find out what the connection is between the two subjects. First of all, I’m interested in Razmig Chakaryan, better known in public as Well, how long have you known him? What is your relationship with Hristoforos Amanatidis-Taki, as I see the same lawyer representing your company and other companies in which these people are shareholders? And I also look at the address, which for correspondence is the same – „Tsar Asen“ № 79, floor 2, so if you can answer me your relationship with both people and how long have you known them to tell?“

Vasil Dimitrov answered him:

„These people, Mr. Bachiiski, I do not know them, and my lawyer does not know who represents another, I cannot know what kind of relationship he has with other people and companies and so on. The address of my company is Serdika, residential building number 18. As for Tsar Asen Street, I don’t know where it comes from and I have no idea.“

Bachiyski insisted: „The address that the respective lawyers submitted to the Commercial Register is not to your company, but their correspondence is the same, I’m just trying to find out between all these companies if there is any connection? You said that you worked for the company that had previously carried out the same activities for the last 10 years, and that was Interpred Eurologistics, right? (…) One of the persons in the Commercial Register appears as a person related to the specific company, and you have worked there. So I ask you sure you know the managers and shareholders in the time that was? That is, you do not know them, you have worked there, but you do not know who the owners are and who the managers were. Let’s just clarify – there is one person who claims that he worked before taking this job in this company and does not know the managers and maybe the people who hired him, this raises doubts for me.“

Dimitrov repeated: „As I said, I do not know the faces. I have worked there, but I do not know the people you are quoting. That’s all I can say.“

The person who sent the email asked several questions that he did not think had been asked so far. We publish some of them:

1. „We continue the change“ kicked the hive to fix the chaos which was created by GERB and MRF or will fix the chaos seemingly, but in fact their companies will take advantage of the opened lucrative niche? The question is will there be a real change or will “Eurolab” be replaced by companies close to „We continue the change“?
2. Is „There is such a people“ (TISP) dependent on the MRF and in how many of the schemes do they participate?
3. Are Boyko Borissov and other people from GERB involved in the Eurolab scheme, as well as which people from the MRF?
4. Will everyone involved in the scheme be prosecuted or will they get away with it because they are already millionaires and can pay their „peace fee“?
5. Will the ruling coalition do something about “Eurolab” to expose the culprits and hold them accountable?
6. What will happen to these institutions and corrupt government officials who were part of the scheme and threatened people and their colleagues? Will anyone investigate them or have they become rich enough to pay their „peace fee“?
7. Which of the current MPs from GERB, MRF and TISP is involved in the scheme?

Iskra.bg will continue to follow the case of the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint the spreading, unpunished corruption at  this  moment.