Nikolay Mladenov is the second politician whose name is included in the Pandora Papers investigation, Nova TV reports.
The former military and foreign minister has registered an offshore company in the Seychelles through a Swiss intermediary. This happened in August 2013 – a few months after Mladenov left Bulgarian politics and a week after he became the UN special envoy to Iraq. The diplomat took office on August 2, 2013, and Afron Enterprises Ltd. was established on August 9.
Mladenov himself explained to bird.bg that the registration of a company that appears in his name, it has never worked and never had financial flows.
“In 2013, following the end of the term of office, I decided to start a freelance practice, a new beginning. For this purpose I registered a company through which to work. I contacted Swiss financial advisers and started correspondence with them. Then I received an offer from the UN and my plans changed, “he explained.
Asked about the discrepancy in the dates of his appointment to the UN and the registration of the company, Mladenov said that he can’t remember exactly how the process went. However, he clarified that he started before the beginning of his mandate at the UN.
The data in Pandora Papers shows that SFM has invoiced 600 euros per year to maintain registration, which was active until 2018. Mladenov explained that he had contacted the company and received a document that it has not been active since.
Nearly $ 28 billion exported from Bulgaria through offshore companies in 10 years
Dimo Gyaurov sees Pandora Papers as a good starting platform for the investigation of SANS, NRA and the prosecution
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Recall, it has already become clear that former MRF MP Delyan Peevski is one of the Bulgarian politicians in the Pandora files. It has been established that Peevski is connected with three offshore companies, which are not mentioned in the property declarations submitted by him.
Subsequently from The NRA announced that they had requested additional data for the Bulgarians who appear in the Pandora Papers investigation documents.
For his part Peevski categorically denied the informationthat he is connected with three offshore companies, for which there is no trace in the property declarations submitted by him.
The Pandora Papers investigation covers 11.9 million documents affecting the world. 600 journalists from 117 countries worked on it.
130 people, including more than 30 leading politicians, were under investigation. Among them are the King of Jordan and the Czech Prime Minister, as well as the leaders of Chile, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, Sebastian Pinera, Guillermo Lasso and Luis Abinader. Among the former rulers is the name of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Do not leave an unopened Pandora’s box, Radev calls
The President wants us to learn from our services, not from abroad, about the laws being violated
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