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The assassination attempt against banker before 15 years, which was in the top of the race su, was announced for political – in the day, when two ministers comment the negative EU report on lack of justice in our country and 3 days before local elections
October 26, 2005, Saint Dimitrov’s Day, 9.15 am. It is raining bullets on the government route Bulgaria Blvd. The target is the largest in the insurance business at the time and owner of the seventh largest bank in Bulgaria: Emil Kyulev, 48 years old.
Although only 150 high-profile killings occurred in Bulgaria from 2000 to October 2005, Kyulev’s execution was unexpected and shocked the state. One of the largest entrepreneurs, whose business is legal, was assassinated. Kyulev’s assassination ranks alongside that of former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov in 1996.
Ironically, Kyulev was shot and killed as then-Interior and Justice Ministers Rumen Petkov and Georgi Petkanov gave a press conference at the Council of Ministers explaining what action they would take after a critical report from the European Commission on crime and the judiciary. in Bulgaria. The banker was assassinated three days before the local elections. “This murder has nothing to do with the murders so far, which were obviously a confrontation between various criminal groups in the field of organized crime. There were no threats to Emil Kyulev, he himself did not feel threatened. This crime is aimed at destabilizing the country. Quite a blow to the state and statehood and the European orientation of Bulgaria, “said Rumen Petkov from the parliamentary rostrum and declared (another) war on crime. The then prime minister
Sergei Stanishev and the boss
Prosecutor Nikola Filchev
determine the murder
like a political assassination
15 years after the shooting of Emil Kyulev, the investigation into his execution has stopped, the author, guarantor and mediator have not been found, part of his business has been inherited by his family, another part is already owned by foreign investors serious.
It is known that the executor of the head of the financial group DZI was waiting for him meters from the junction between Bulgaria Blvd. and Dimitar Nestorov Blvd. Without a mask on his head, he was lurking in the bushes in front of the 15 block of the boulevard, apparently familiar with the route of the entrepreneur. He never moved safely because he was convinced that his business was visible and clear, and if someone wanted to kill someone they could get by with a bunch of bodyguards.
Kyulev’s jeep BMW, coming from Boyana on the boulevard, slowed down due to the traffic jam before the intersection. The mercenary approached and opened fire with a ninth-caliber machine gun. The banker was sitting next to the driver.
An autopsy showed that he had received seven bullets. Most were on his head, three of them remained on his body. No projectiles were found in his clothing. Fifteen rounds from a 9mm submachine gun were found at the crime scene. The lead went through the jeep’s right front window and the bullets ricocheted, shattering the driver’s glass, who was also injured. The jeep, which was moving in the center lane, after hitting the driver, turned slightly to the right and collided with an Audi.
Kyulev was not threatened. Proof of this is that on the last Wednesday of his life he traveled unattended again. Also, he never drove with guards, even often driving his own car. That is why politicians see in the ostentation of the execution, which due to the lack of security could have occurred anywhere, and not at rush hour on one of the busiest boulevards in the capital, an attempt to shake the country.
Later that day, the Home Office distributed a photographic robot of the alleged killer. According to SDVR investigators, he was about 28 years old, 1.70 meters tall, with a long face, a mustache and a beard in the shape of a vertical band below his lower lip. Was he wearing a hat. Again, according to forensic experts, the murderer escaped through a passage between the entrances of the same block, which leads to the back street “Enos”.
Two hours after the murder, Kyulev’s body was taken to Forensic Medicine for an autopsy. He was buried on October 30. Thousands attend his funeral in the cathedral “St. Sunday”, among them dozens of representatives of business, politics, public figures, intellectuals. The queue of those who wait to say goodbye to a banker meanders through the square “St. Sunday. However, unknown gamens interrupted him with a false signal for a bomb, which was supposedly planted in the temple.
To show that he was indeed embarking on a crusade against crime, the days after the murder were marked by numerous police actions. The berets and the gendarmerie were taken to the streets. The Interior Ministry launched the Respect campaign.
More than 2,500 people, dozens
cars and offices are controlled,
140 were arrested, between
that the Krassimir brothers and
Nikolay Marinovi –
The margins
The then deputy chief prosecutor Hristo Manchev called for a special law against organized crime or special texts in the current legislation. In fact, in 2010 similar texts were created to combat organized crime with the implementation of specialized justice in our country. Chief Prosecutor Nikola Filchev and Interior Minister Rumen Petkov head the crisis headquarters with representatives from the prosecution and the Interior Ministry.
The bullets hit Kyulev when he was at the top of his business ventures. In a popular ranking at the time by the Polish magazine Vprost of the 100 richest people in Eastern Europe, he was ranked 73rd with a fortune of 500 million dollars.
Your business career
launched in 1988,
when creating
Kyulev’s contract
– Administrative law services company. Before that, from 1981 to 1988 he worked in the Ministry of the Interior. By the way, his father Alexander Kyulev, after whom his eldest son was named, is also an employee of the Interior Ministry, he was a colonel.
Before the 1990s, Emil Kyulev was successively involved in the establishment of Touristbank, Touristsportbank, Commercial and Savings Bank, Bulgarian-Russian Investment Bank and Rosexim.
In 1993 he became a co-founder of the Confederation of Large Industries G-13, and in 2001 together with Iliya Pavlov (also deceased) and Vasil Bozhkov (currently hiding in Dubai because he has 18 positions) he founded the Vazrazhdane business club. .
In 2002 he was elected “Mr. Economy”, bought DZI and founded the Bulgarian financial group of the same name, which also has a pension fund. He is also the owner of the Riviera complex near Varna, Sandanski Hotel, a farm near Melnik. In the year of his death he participated in the “Super Borovets” project.
In the first hours after the execution, Rumen Petkov outlined four working versions, one of which was that of a confrontation led by economic reasons. The bottom line is that this is not murder out of the desire to preserve or occupy a new market, but another type of usurpation of the Bulgarian state.
A week after Kyulev’s murder, the Margini brothers were accused of leading a group of wet orders. According to the indictment, they organized murders against the smuggler Ivan Todorov-Doctor, Gen. Lyuben Gotsev and the late financier Nikola Damyanov. The brothers were finally acquitted in 2012.
Soon the strong promises of a war on crime were forgotten and things got back on track for Bulgaria, and the investigation into the murder of a banker began to wane. It was discontinued in 2008.
Suddenly, in 2010, the dusty folders were about to get hit. The then Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov hinted that the Interior Ministry might be on the verge of uncovering the murder. In addition to discovering the gang by wet warrants, known as the Assassins, investigators found some facts about their execution. At the time, businessman Georgi Valev, Petar Stoyanov-Sumista and several other people under investigation for the murders of Yuri Galev, Veliko Tarnovo’s lawyer Petar Lupov and businessman Rumen Rachev from Shumen were in custody. Among those arrested is Georgi Petkov-Dachi, suspected of being Kyulev’s physical shooter.
Dachi later left the Assassins group, but was convicted of two assassination attempts. The main version of the Killers’ connection to the murder of Emil Kyulev was about disputes over Trakia Bank. In 1999, it merged with Rosexim Bank of Kyulev. Before that, Georgi Valev’s brother, Tanyo, was a shareholder in Trakia Bank. At that time, there was a dispute over shares worth BGN 57 million between Valev and Kyulev, including in court.
Witnesses in the “Killers” case linked the saga to the Trakia Bank actions and two other murders: lawyer Petar Lupov and Rumen Rachev, who was supposed to be a mediator in the settlement of relations between Valev and Kyulev’s heirs.
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