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Serbian newspaper ‘Blitz’ reported that Josic’s business ties will also be investigated including with Bulgarian energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki. Photo by BGNES
Serbian secret police are currently checking the secret bank accounts of alleged Balkan drug lord Sreten Josic aka Joca Amsterdam according to sources in Belgrade.
The Serbian police have allegedly begun a financial investigation to establish the true wealth of Josic by delving into real estate companies, secret safes in Serbia and abroad as well as his privatization dealings.
Serbian newspaper ‘Blitz’ reported that Josic’s business ties will also be investigated including with Bulgarian energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki.
Josic is currently on trial for the murder of the owner of the Croatian magazine "National" Ivo Pukanic.
Josic was detained at the end of April on charges of being an accomplice in the murder of Pukanic.
Ivo Pukanic, owner and editor-in-chief of the Croatian weekly "Nacional" and the publication's marketing director Niko Franic were killed by a car bomb on October 23 last year in downtown Zagreb.
Kovachki, who is charged with with tax crimes amounting to BGN 16 M for the 2005-2008 period from four of his businesses, appeared in Sofia City Court in April, but scorned the questions of the journalists regarding his links to organized criminals.
Kovachki, whose party failed to win seats in July's parliamentary election, has diverse business interests, ranging from manufacturing to banking and from energy to retail. He owns the Thermal Plants "Maritsa-Iztok 3" in Dimitrovgrad and "Bobov Dol", several mines, as well as the heating utilities in Vratsa, Burgas, Veliko Tarnovo and Pleven, the grocery chain "Evropa" and the "Atomenergoremont" company.
Today it will become clear which are candidates submitted bids for the construction of a gas pipeline between the Bulgarian-Turkish and the Bulgarian-Serbian border.
Protesting workers at the Babino pit, Bobov Dol mine, have been denied payment of salaries unless they sign an agreement with their employer, private NOVA TV station has announced.
Miners from Babino pit, at the Bobov Dol mines in Bulgaria, continue their protest action on Wednesday as their talks with the management and trade union have failed, the public broadcaster has said.
Nearly a hundred miners staged on Wednesday a blockade of the road linking Burgas and the resort town of Slanchev Bryag (Sunny Beach) by the Black Sea.
The sixth-biggest group in Bulgaria's Parliament dissolved itself on Friday after five of the MPs belonging to it submitted requests to leave it.
Five Bulgarian lawmakers from the Bulgarian Democratic Center (BDC)'s parliamentary group are to submit their requests to leave it, one of the MPs has said.
In the Italian city of Civitavecchia, a 46-year-old Bulgarian woman was brutally murdered by her partner,
A 39-year-old Bulgarian woman named Sasha Nencheva was fatally stabbed in Sneek, Friesland, the Netherlands, as reported by local media
An armed robbery was reported in Sofia this morning, targeting a jewelry studio in the "Poduyane" district near the "Georgi Asparuhov" stadium
Two Syrian nationals, aged 24 and 32, have been charged by the Haskovo District Prosecutor's Office for kidnapping and raping two Moroccan citizens in the Bulgarian village of Harmanli
Two Bulgarian sailors, Kamen Petkov, 36, and Nikola Penchev, 34, have been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Ireland for their involvement in a cocaine trafficking scheme
Three men from Radomir have been arrested and charged with hooliganism after a violent altercation
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