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The first page of “Periódico”, showing Borislava Yovcheva’s closed boutique, which according to the publication is the subject of an investigation by the Spanish authorities.
The model Borislava Yovcheva, whose name became known after the scandal with the Barcelona house and the investigation by the Catalan authorities on whether the Prime Minister, Boyko Borissov, is linked to an international money laundering plan, got married .
Her husband is Yordan Hristov. He is a representative of the Cypriot offshore company Palms Enterprises, which invested in the company that owns a boutique in Barcelona, which was run by Yovcheva until it closed in February this year. Hristov, however he denies this funding and says he knows nothing about the store, Except he had big losses.
The two have concluded marriage on February 16 of this year, exactly five days before the Spanish newspaper “Periódico” published on February 21 on the investigation. A few months later, Hristov described the marriage as a “mistake” without explaining what he was referring to.
All this is understood from a publication of the “Bureau of Investigative Reporting and Data” (BIRD), whose authors are the journalists of “Bivol” Dimitar Stoyanov and Atanas Chobanov. The team managed to find Hristov in front of his hotel in Primorsko and talk to him (part of his reaction, in the video at the end of the text).
The post clarifies more details about the relationship between Hristov and Yovcheva. These are facts and personal connections, but they arouse public interest because the story is related to an investigation into money laundering in Spain, it is the name of the prime minister, the people around Yovcheva are the least known to Borissov and everyone deny or avoid. talk about the subject calmly answer questions about it.
And seven months after the publication in the Spanish press, it is unclear where Yovcheva’s family had the means to live and invest in Barcelona and how she became a partner with Borissov’s former tennis partners.
Hristov told reporters about his dealings with Borissov and a bit about his business, but mainly attacked them for dealing with him and this story.
“Mistake” with marriage
BIRD has published a certificate from the Registration Agency showing that As of February 6, 2020, Borislava Yovcheva is now Ms. Hristova. And the property relations regime between her and her husband is a “legal regime of separation” (this means that each of them becomes the owner of a property that he acquired in his name during the marriage, for example, if Hristov builds a new hotel as his property, his wife will not be able to have claims against him).
From Yordan Hristov’s words with the bureau journalists it is also clear that the two do not live together and a few months later define marriage as a mistake.
Hristov denies before publication that he had invested in Yovcheva’s fashion business in Barcelona, because that was before him, but he knows that the losses are large: more than 600,000 euros. The newspaper also wrote about this: that the company that ran it was “almost bankrupt.” The store closed at the same time as the publication in the newspaper, and the publication reflected the following day how it is already being rented.
“EMA BGS SL owns a luxury clothing store on Passeig de Gràcia. The Catalan police believe that the company received a financial injection of at least 2.3 million euros from another company registered in Cyprus. EMA’s management BGS SL, in which the first model and her father also participated, coinciding with that of the town, ”wrote the February number.
The other company is Palms Enterprises, registered in Cyprus and represented by Hristov. In 2015, this company and Yovcheva’s brother Georgi will contribute a total of 875,000 EUR each twice to the capital of EMA BGS SL.
That is why Hristov is also an object of interest to the Catalan police and is mentioned in the material of “Periódico”.
Hristov: The case is closed to the Spanish prosecution
“The whole story is there! And he personally told the Spaniard that I’m not here, but everyone else is out, personally the boss (probably the prosecutor) who scored.”
BIRD quotes these incomplete explanations from Hristov, who before them states that the investigation in Spain has been completed.
In August, Dnevnik sent questions to the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office in Madrid in an attempt to find out what stage the Barcelona investigation was at, whether Borissov had been questioned and whether it was planned. The prosecution responded in early September, refusing to provide information on the case, arguing that it was only available to countries with a “legitimate interest” in obtaining it: the plaintiffs and the people harmed by the investigation.
BIRD recalls a Sega publication from June, when a Catalan police spokesman commented that “the investigation is not over, there is a lot of data that we continue to investigate. With the usual contacts and regulated channels. We cannot give more details because in the case of classified information “.
The son of Borislava (Yovcheva) Hristova
Born in 2012 Yovcheva’s daughter is also increasingly discussed in publications on the subject. “Periódico” describes the mother as “a former model from Bulgaria, whose possible relationship with Borisov is being carefully reviewed” and who lives with her parents and son in the house in Barcelona (also reviewed by local authorities, and a few months ago was put up for sale.There were also conflicting explanations about the house and property, such as the fact that Yovcheva lives there for rent).
Newspaper wrote in February that according to local police, “the child’s only guardian is Borislava Yovcheva and no other parent is listed in the documents.”
Up to this point Borissov avoids commenting on the subject With the model, he copied the publication in the Spanish press of an attack by Russia and President Rumen Radev and closed the matter claiming that there is no house in Barcelona (so far no one has claimed or found evidence that the house is his, but it is checking if there is influence on the security of the purchase and how it relates to the people who bought it and financed the store).
In February, when asked about Yovcheva, she said: “I don’t care about my personal life. Knowing someone or not does not implicate you at all. It is not good for a man to comment who knows who, that they turn white.”
On Saturday, during his visit to Kardzhali, Bivol correspondent Vildan Bayryamova asked Prime Minister Borissov: “Do you have a son from Borislava Yovcheva?”. He reacted with “No. Absurd, don’t ask me nonsense.” and did not comment further.
Before BIRD Hristov said that Yovcheva’s son is not her. He does not answer where his wife lives.
They “ate me” because I played tennis with Borisov
When asked about his relationship with Boyko Borissov, the businessman claimed that he had not seen him for 20 years and “because I played tennis with him five times, they ate me.”
“The fact that at that time I was playing tennis with him only hurts me. You want me to tell you at all costs, Abe Boyko Borisov, he is my first friend and I am like that, everyone makes mistakes, so to speak! Don’t you make mistakes? ” From Boyko Borissov, I was just mad at him, do you know how much he interests me?, quotes BIRD Hristov.
The businessman is a partner of Ivan Sazdov, who was related to Borisov during the establishment of GERB. Palms Enterprises is co-owner with the municipality of Primorsko in the company “Sportni imoti Primorsko” AD, in whose direction from 2008 to 2011 Sazdov was.
Borissov also claims that he played tennis with Hristov 100 years ago. “I have nothing to do with these companies. People have been selected whom I have not seen in 10, 15, 20 years. I know Ivan Sazdov as the head of the Komsomol at Bankya. They will say: ‘Oh, he knows him.’ the prime minister commented in February. publications.
BIRD also writes about another Hristov partner, whose partner has become a representative of EMA BGS SL. after the first posts about Yovcheva, we are talking about Ilian Penev, Matsola (related to the old PEC group in Ruse) and Miglena Nikolova.
According to an inspection by the Office of Investigative Reports and Data, Yordan Hristov is connected with several people companies that received more than 7 million BGN in financing for European projects, as well as that obtained public contracts for almost 16 million BGN. BGN When asked by a journalist, Hristov denied that it was because of his relationship with Borissov and said that years ago he even personally complained to Economy Minister Borislav Lukarski (during Boyko Borissov’s second cabinet, he was a minister in the Reformist Bloc / UDF ). ) because he was blackmailed by a European project.
The case of the financing of the house in Barcelona and the boutique was also investigated by the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office (it was also referred to the National Revenue Agency), but according to Sega, in May the state prosecutor’s office refused to open an investigation.
