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The beer brewing and bottling company “Ledenika,” makes the “Ledenika” and “MM” beer brands and is owned by the “Ledenika and MM Inc.” company. File photo
The beer brewing and bottling company "Ledenika," makes the "Ledenika" and "MM" beer brands and is owned by the "Ledenika and MM Inc." company.
The shareholders are the Varna-based "Machineinvest" with a 77% stake and the offshore company "Alvert Limited" registered on the Seychelles, holding the other 23%.
The information was published Friday in the Bulgarian daily "Dnevnik," in the aftermath of Bulgaria's latest tape scandal.
Earlier Friday, the Galeria weekly released a tape of an alleged conversation between Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the Customs Director, Vanyo Tanov.
Galeria is a paper believed to be the mouthpiece of Aleksei Petrov, former special agent of the State National Security Agency DANS, (currently under house arrest), who has been investigated on organized crime charges since his detention in the much advertised "Operation Octopus" in February 2010
At the end of 2009, the Customs Agency had started a routine probe at the brewery, which has the statute of an excise warehouse, "Dnevnik" writes.
The probe involved the warehouse's books which must list all received excise goods and unlist them when they leave the warehouse to be sold in stores. If there are no such books or omissions in them, authorities see it as a sign of tax evasion allowing the manufacturer to not pay excise duty.
The probe led to the seizure of 122 000 liters of the "Ledenika" beer, which have not been accounted for, over suspicions of attempts to not pay the excise tax. At the time, the Customs Agency allowed for the beer to be bottled under the condition it would not leave the premises.
In February 2010, Tanov revoked the brewery's license to make and store excise goods over the violations revealed by the probe.
The brewery, however, continued its activities, and an announcement about this was made by the Customs Agency from August 22 2010.
The Agency told "Dnevnik" the license has been reinstated.
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