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Prosecutor’s Office with a new investigation for money laundering against him
Plovdiv AD sugar plant tried to bring Hacienda Beach to Sozopol in a new venture
A contract declared null and void by the court was used, with which Marinela bought the inheritance of the three minor children of the founder of Bonnie Holding Borislav Nikolov, who died in an accident.
The specialized prosecutor’s office has launched a new investigation into money laundering and suspicious transactions around the business of Vetko and Marinela Arabadjievi at the end of 2020.
At the signal of SANS financial intelligence, one of the family’s hotel complexes was seized, which was to be contributed to a new company.
Transactions based on a preliminary contract for the sale of an inheritance, which was declared null and void by the Sofia City Court, but used for payments to third parties, are also being investigated.
The three arguments are described in a judgment of the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeals dated December 22, which has at its disposal “24 Chasa”. It is clear from this that the manager of the Plovdiv sugar plant AD Petyo Stoykov is appealing against the seizure of 19 apartments and a restaurant, the foreclosure of which the court has allowed at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. The properties are in the tourist complex “Hacienda Beach” near Sozopol, whose construction began in 2008 and ended in 2019. The complex is on the assets of “Sugar Plant Plovdiv” AD. The latter company is owned by the Lavana offshore company, controlled by the Arabadjievs.
At the end of last year an attempt was made to contribute the apartments and the restaurant as a non-monetary contribution to the capital of a new company.
The deal is
It should be
confess before
notary in
November
However, the operation for the contribution of the properties in a new company was intercepted by SANS. The Special Prosecutor’s Office was then informed that there was a suspicion of money laundering. The contribution also failed, as the apartments and restaurant, owned by Zaharen Kombinat Plovdiv AD, were foreclosed upon.
To comply with the request of the state prosecutor’s office, the court also cites the new investigation started in 2020, according to which Zaharen Kombinat Plovdiv AD is part of companies such as “disappeared” and “brokers”, through which a criminal group organized commits tax crimes. . It also says that there are doubts about
The origin of
funds
with what they are
constructed
the properties in
Hacienda Beach
That is why the prohibition of transactions with them was imposed by virtue of the Law of Measures against Money Laundering, which “Plovdiv Sugar Plant” appealed.
However, this is not the only agreement being investigated in the new 2020 pre-trial proceedings. Dozens of others are being investigated, in which there is a movement of large sums between related parties: the defendants in the first case. Petyo Stoykov, Marinela Arabadjieva and Vetko Arabadjiev through companies. Sugar Plant Plovdiv ”AD, the offshore company“ Lavana ”,“ Alice Invest Group ”OOD,“ Krasiva Maritsa ”AD and M. UN. “Ltd. with the owner and manager Marinela Arabadjieva.
Exactly the contract of “M. A. “EOOD of 2018 is the basis of the attempt to transfer Hacienda Beach to a new company, it is clear from the judicial law. The deal is between
the company of
Marinela
Arabadzhieva and
Aena Dragova –
mother and legitimate
representative
of three children, whose father is the founder of “Bonnie Holding” Borislav Nikolov.
He died after an accident in 2014. He recognized his children, who were minors at the time of his death, and are his full heirs.
His legal representative is his mother, who is still fighting dozens of court battles with Bonnie Holding, led by Nikolov’s eldest son Georgi.
On January 8, 2018, Aena Dragova signed a contract for the sale of her children’s inheritance with the company Marinela Arabadjieva. The price is 3 million BGN, according to experts, which is disputed.
Prior to this contract, Bonnie Holding offered Aena Dragova 4 million euros for the inheritance shares of her children, but she did not accept the deal, according to the commercial case in the Sofia City Court.
With this resolution, the contract for the sale of the inheritance of Aena Dragova to Marinela Arabadjieva was declared void. According to the magistrates, their objective was to sell the shares of Bonnie Holding.
Before this decision, Arabadjieva had requested from her company “M. A. “Limited.
be entered
as a shareholder of
Bonnie Holding
because he already bought the inheritance of the three minor children. However, this is not happening.
The case of the sale of the inheritance was investigated by the Sofia District Prosecutor’s Office, it is clear from the sentence of the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeals of December 22. Following the signal of the SANS for the contributions of Hacienda Beach in the new company based on the same contract for the sale of inheritances, the investigation was assumed by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office and assigned to it for the other suspicious operations of the Arabadjiev companies. There are still no defendants in the new pre-trial proceedings, although the names of the entrepreneurs and the companies they control are indicated.
The first case of 2018 is already in court,
everyone in the group is free
The first case of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Arabadjievi for tax crimes and money laundering is from the summer of 2018 and is already on trial. Vetko and Marinela Arabadjievi were wanted by Interpol and arrested months later in Spain. The defendants in this case are Vetko Arabadjiev, his wife Marinela, the director of the Plovdiv plant Petyo Stoykov and Fidanka Stoycheva, whose names are also published in the new investigation. The others are the son of hoteliers Valcho Arabadjiev and others close to them. They are all free, and the last one, Vetko Arabadjiev, was released after a year and a half in custody.
In 2019, the anti-corruption commission filed a lawsuit in the Sofia City Court for BGN 379 million against the Arabadjievs: money, cars, property and hotel complexes in Elenite, Sofia and Sveti Vlas. Among them were not the Victoria Palace in Sunny Beach, previously sold to the Margins, and the now seized Hacienda Beach, which has been licensed for use since August 30, 2019. In October of last year. The Supreme Court of Cassation lifted the seizure of part of the shares of Arabadjievi companies, imposed by the anti-corruption commission.
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