Lawyer Lazar Karadaliyev, arrested in 2020 as the leader of an organized crime group for money laundering, has devised a new cunning scheme to hide tax revenue. A scandalous report to our editorial office claims that through the construction firm "Laro Invest", registered at 13 Slavishte St., entrance B, in the Lozenets district of the capital, owned by Karadaliyev and Radostina Metodieva Stoykova, the latter has been selling properties several times below their market value and even below their tax assessment, pocketing the cash without declaring it to the revenue agency.
Our sources cite over 200 such transactions just in the past year of 2023, executed during a real price boom, yet declared for mere pennies to the NRA. As evidence, they sent whole "volumes" of extracts from the commercial and property registers. Even without reprinting them, a quick check in the cadastral records for "Laro Invest" with company ID 206452719 can confirm these claims, and even shed light on a series of scandalous purchases and sales of super luxury duplexes, spacious apartments in prime locations in Sofia, and attractive plots on the slopes of Vitosha.
What could possibly drive a lawyer, who is supposed to uphold the law, to engage in shady schemes while the head of the NRA, Rumen Spetsоv, wonders how to cover the dwindling tax revenues? We expect the revenue agency authorities to respond.
We remind you that this latest disclosure of sinister financial dealings is not a precedent for Karadaliyev. In 2020, the prosecutor's office arrested him, raiding his offices and chambers on charges of money laundering again. According to the state prosecution, Lazar Karadaliyev and his associates used domestic and offshore companies stuffed with money from criminal activities. According to investigators, the group has been active since 2014. At that time, tax authorities were checking transactions that were believed to have reached offshore companies of a Russian oligarch who is on the sanctions list of the EU and the USA.
Karadaliyev gained public notoriety as one of the lawyers for the fugitive banker Tsvetan Vasilev, and even appeared at court sessions while he himself was being investigated for major thefts. On March 17, 2020, at the request of the prosecution, the court imposed the most severe measure of restraint, "Detention under guard." The participants used a company controlled by them, registered under proxy individuals in Bulgaria, as well as in offshore zones – having open accounts in Bulgarian banks. Representatives of these companies withdrew or ordered transfers from accounts of funds obtained from criminal activity, stated the Court House at the time.
At the same time, the Commission for Anti-Corruption and Confiscation of Illegally Acquired Property filed a claim in court for the confiscation of property worth over 2.8 million leva from the lawyer. According to the commission, Karadaliyev had "received an undue sum as a lawyer, without having provided legal or other services to the company that paid him a fee without documents." An investigation was also conducted against him for participating in a cigarette smuggling channel.
Will another financial scheme for money laundering organized by Lazar Karadaliyev be covered up, and will he avoid jail again? We leave it to Rumen Spetsоv and the NRA to answer.
Source: informiran.net, crimesbg.com
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