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In a live statement in front of the newly built Hyatt hotel in Sofia, Yes, Bulgaria’s President Hristo Ivanov asked Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to make Lukoil’s audit acts publicly available.
The five-star Hyatt hotel was built on the site of the former Serdika next to the Vasil Levski monument by Terra Tour Service company, which manages the hotel business of the family of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lukoil Bulgaria and former CEO of the company. Valentin Zlatev.
Ivanov raised the question of the connection between the financing of the new hotel and whether Lukoil has paid all taxes related to his activity in Bulgaria on the importation of crude oil, its processing and its sale by the gas station chain.
Hristo Ivanov recalled that the National Revenue Agency (NRA) was sentenced in two cases to provide information about Lukoil’s audit acts, but did not comply with court decisions. Ivanov wrote to former Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov and Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who promised that the minutes would be published, but this was not done. According to Ivanov, if these acts are made public, it will be clarified whether there is data on non-payment of taxes of around BGN 1 billion.
“I want, not to be surprised, to say that the next time I have to ask these questions after the hotel opens, I will do so in Russian and English. So future hotel guests are undoubtedly investors, undoubtedly officials and European politicians, to be able to get acquainted with this interesting context in Sofia. And also to be able to meet perhaps the former colleagues of Valentin Vasilievich, “Ivanov said.
Two months ago, an anonymous recording of a conversation between Prime Minister Borissov and an interlocutor he called “Valentin Vasilich” (Zlatev’s father’s name is Vassilev) was leaked. In the recording, Borissov said that he heard that Vasilic supported the leader of the BSP, Cornelia Ninova, and President Rumen Radev. Today Hristo Ivanov reminded the prosecution that they must also investigate the content of the recording.
