Bulgaria Journalist Murdered for Providing Witness to Mafia Trial

Crime | January 16, 2010, Saturday // 13:27
Bulgaria Journalist Murdered for Providing Witness to Mafia Trial: Bulgaria Journalist Murdered for Providing Witness to Mafia Trial Vasilev (above) made clear Saturday that Prosecutors had an idea who actually assassinated Tsankov. Photo by BGNES

Deputy Sofia City Prosecutor, Roman Vasilev, has reported that controversial journalist Bobi Tsankov was murdered to stop him for providing a witness to the trial on January 13 of the alleged top criminal bosses – the Marguin brothers.

Vasilev made clear Saturday that Prosecutors had an idea who actually assassinated Tsankov and also that the people who “stood behind the murder” were trying to show that they were stronger than the state.

Meanwhile, it was revealed on Saturday by the Bulgarian daily newspaper Trud that Professors from the Academy of Economics ‘D.A. Tsenov’ in Svishtov had helped to launder money for the Marguin brothers.

Associate professors and assistant professors allegedly were in partnership at the ‘Quick Lets’ offshore company with Krasimir Marinov aka The Big Marguin’s wife – Maria Marinova and Irena Atanasova – the wife of alleged mafia boss and SIC member Dmitrii Minev a.k.a. Dimata Rusnaka.

The two Marguin Brothers are publicly known as being among the leaders of the SIC corporation - allegedly one of Bulgaria's two powerful mafia structures in the 1990s. Many of their associates have perished in gangland killings since 2000.

Tsankov, a Bulgarian radio and TV talk show host with a criminal record, was murdered on January 5, 2010, in broad daylight in downtown Sofia.

Krasimir Marinov aka The Big Marguin, who is allegedly a large-scale mafia boss, and his younger brother Nikolay Marinov, aka The Little Marguin, who is still wanted by the police, have been charged with ordering the murder.

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Tags: Bobi Tsankov, The Marguin brothers, Krasimir Marinov, Nikolay Marinov, trial

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