Vassil Bozhkov said he paid in cash “comfort fee” to officials
The former lottery mogul, who is now charged on multiple counts of tax fraud, extortion, heading a criminal organization group and more, and currently residing in Dubai, released a new portion of claims regarding the alleged corruptive relationship he has had with officials over the years.
Bozhkov owned the largest private lottery games in Bulgaria before the ruling party suddenly introduced a bill to Parliament providing all lottery type games become a state monopoly. The bill, which would cancel one of Bozhkov’s main businesses was passed and enacted in record time. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office charged him with multiple crimes, and went on to confiscate much of his famous antique collection. Bozhkov claimed a while back that one of the rythons from his collection has even emerged on the free market.
This Monday, Bozhkov released a comix, entitled the Real Story, featuring himself as Ali Baba, PM Boyko Borissov, as The Chief, Finance Minister Vladislav Gouranov, as the Under Chief of Finance, former opposition MP Georgi Kadiev as the Opposition Thief and the head of the Parliamentary Budget Committee Menda Stoyanova, as the Finance Legislator Thief. In the story the character, reminiscent of Kadiev proposes a bill, which would tax the gambling sector 15%, whereby excluding it from the all-round 10% flat tax in Bulgaria. In the comix, the Chief character then calls Ali Baba aside and assures him he would insure the bill does not pass in exchange for “help later”. Ali Baba asked what sort of help, but the Chief does not say. The Chief sends Ali Baba to the Finance Legislator Thief to work out the details. A new bill is produced, which would not raise the tax for the lotteries. Then the Under Chief of Finance tells Ali Baba would have to pay 20% of his profits or else the current law will be revoked.
The next day Vassil Bozhkov published a “translation of the story”, along with bank statements, which show several withdraws from Bozhkov’s personal account from January 2018, amounting to 2,7 million leva. Bozhkov shared the screenshots of the banks statements on social media together with a caption, saying that the tax revision, which Finance Minister Vladislav Gouranov has appointed to Bozhkov will reveal that “after paying all my taxes I withdrew large sums in cash from my personal account”. Bozhkov claims all his other expenses are paid through bank transfers and ends with a rhetorical “These funds are not on hand. Where are they?”
Bozhkov owned the largest private lottery games in Bulgaria before the ruling party suddenly introduced a bill to Parliament providing all lottery type games become a state monopoly. The bill, which would cancel one of Bozhkov’s main businesses was passed and enacted in record time. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office charged him with multiple crimes, and went on to confiscate much of his famous antique collection. Bozhkov claimed a while back that one of the rythons from his collection has even emerged on the free market.
This Monday, Bozhkov released a comix, entitled the Real Story, featuring himself as Ali Baba, PM Boyko Borissov, as The Chief, Finance Minister Vladislav Gouranov, as the Under Chief of Finance, former opposition MP Georgi Kadiev as the Opposition Thief and the head of the Parliamentary Budget Committee Menda Stoyanova, as the Finance Legislator Thief. In the story the character, reminiscent of Kadiev proposes a bill, which would tax the gambling sector 15%, whereby excluding it from the all-round 10% flat tax in Bulgaria. In the comix, the Chief character then calls Ali Baba aside and assures him he would insure the bill does not pass in exchange for “help later”. Ali Baba asked what sort of help, but the Chief does not say. The Chief sends Ali Baba to the Finance Legislator Thief to work out the details. A new bill is produced, which would not raise the tax for the lotteries. Then the Under Chief of Finance tells Ali Baba would have to pay 20% of his profits or else the current law will be revoked.
The next day Vassil Bozhkov published a “translation of the story”, along with bank statements, which show several withdraws from Bozhkov’s personal account from January 2018, amounting to 2,7 million leva. Bozhkov shared the screenshots of the banks statements on social media together with a caption, saying that the tax revision, which Finance Minister Vladislav Gouranov has appointed to Bozhkov will reveal that “after paying all my taxes I withdrew large sums in cash from my personal account”. Bozhkov claims all his other expenses are paid through bank transfers and ends with a rhetorical “These funds are not on hand. Where are they?”
Източник: mediapool.bg
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