Bobi Zankow

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Boris (Bobi) Zankow ( Bulgarian Борис Цанков ) (* 1979 , † January 4, 2010 in Sofia (murdered)) was a convicted Bulgarian criminal, journalist for the tabloid press and radio host.

Life

Several attacks were carried out on Zankow, including a bomb attack in 2005 in which he was injured. On January 4, 2010, two men shot Zankov on the lively boulevard Alexander Stamboliski (бул. “Стамболийски”) in Sofia with four shots from 9-millimeter pistols. Zankow was just on the way to his lawyer. His bodyguards were gunshot wounds.

Zankow had publicly boasted good contacts with the criminal underworld, including Anton Miltenow (Der Schnabel), Konstantin Dimitrov and Iwan Todorow (Doktora) and the Margin brothers. A book by Zankow about the Mutri and criminal groups was rated by the police chief of the city of Sofia, Valeri Jordanow, as a “childish mixture of reality and fantasies”, which sounds amusing, but difficult to prove and also unbelievable. Zankow is also said to have been convicted of fraud twelve times during his lifetime; in its broadcasts it is said to have been called with profit promises to send overpriced SMS messages.

In connection with his murder, Stefan Bonew and Krassimir Marinow , who are also considered members of the Mutri, were arrested. Like Georgi Stoew , who was also murdered in 2008 , Zankow was referred to as a chronicler of the Mafia. Zankow also wrote for a weekend tabloid and took part in television talk shows.

Publications

  • Bobi Zankow: The Secrets of Mutri. , 2009, in Bulgarian

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://capital.bg/show.php?storyid=842967 ; http://mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=160384 and Who was Bobi Zankow (bulg.) , www.dnevnik.bg partner of www.euractiv.com in Bulgaria
  2. ↑ Spiegel Online from January 5, 2010: Bulgaria radio host shot dead on the street
  3. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel of January 7, 2010: Murder in Mi lieu
  4. ^ Vienna online, January 9, 2010: Murdered Bulgarian moderator repeatedly convicted of fraud
  5. ↑ EurActiv.com of 6 January 2010: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Journalist murder reveals Bulgarian shortcomings@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.euractiv.com
  6. ↑ NZZ-Online, January 7, 2010: Well-known journalist murdered in Bulgaria. Political background or settlement of the Sofia Mafia?
personal data
SURNAME Zankow, Bobi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zankow, Boris (real name); Цанков, Борис (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian journalist and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2010
Place of death Sofia