Yuriy Galev, president of the Rilski Sportist football club and nationalist municipal councilor in the town of Samokov, has suffered a mas heart attack Wednesday.

The information is reported by doctors form the Sofia emergency hospital “Pirogov,” where Galev is listed in critical condition, after being shot in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

The hearth attack is the result of the shooting and Galev’s life is in danger, doctors say, adding all efforts are made to treat the problem.

It was reported earlier that the football boss did not have health insurance ecoverage and failed to make insurance contributions since 2005.

Galev was brought to the Pirogov hospital in Sofia with an ambulance from Samokov at about 6 am Sunday, according to the Interior Ministry

Unofficial reports say unknown men fired rounds with a Kalashnikov at his car. Galev has five gunshot wounds in the stomach and the limbs.

Galev is notorious in Samokov for a number of criminal acts. The latest one was in February when Galev and several of his associates beat two ski lift guards in the Borovets mountain resort after the latter refused to let his son ride the lift for free.

In the wake of this incident, the local police arrested four of Galev's men for arson of an office of the Borosport firm, which operates the ski lift.

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