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Delyan Peevski | |
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Делян Пеевски | |
.png) Peevski in 2021 | |
| Leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms | |
| Assumed office 24 February 2024 Serving with Dzhevdet Chakarov | |
| Preceded by | Mustafa Karadayi |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 3 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | 1st MMC - Blagoevgrad |
| In office 14 July 2009 – 26 March 2021 | |
| Constituency | 13th MMC - Pazardzhik (2009-2014) 27th MMC - Zagora (2014-2017) 1st MMC - Blagoevgrad (2017-2021) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Delyan Slavchev Peevski 27 July 1980 Sofia, PR Bulgaria |
| Political party | DPS (2009–2024) |
| Other political affiliations | NDSV (2001–2009) |
| Domestic partner | Tsvetelina Yaneva |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | South-West University |
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Delyan Slavchev Peevski (Bulgarian: Делян Славчев Пеевски [dɛˈʎan ˈpɛɛfski]) is a Bulgarian politician and oligarch,[1][2][3][4] sanctioned by Magnitsky Act by UK[5] and US[6] for corruption, bribery and embezzlement also a former media mogul who has served as a Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria since 2009.[7] A member of the DPS party, he was elected for a short time in 2013 as the Director of the State Agency for National Security, which triggered long lasting national protests. Peevski was also unanimously elected in 2024 as the co-leader of the DPS party alongside Dzhevdet Chakarov.
In June 2021 the United States Department of the Treasury designated Peevski, the public official Ilko Zhelyazkov and the Bulgarian oligarch Vasil Bozhkov, along with 64 entities owned and controlled by Bozhkov and Peevski, for their roles in public corruption, pursuant to Executive Order 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.[8][9] Simultaneously, UK also sanctioned several high-profile Bulgarian figures, including Peevski, under the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations from 2021.[10] Since these sanctions, Peevski has worked closely with representatives of Ukraine to reduce Russia's influence in the energy sector in an attempt to launder his way out of the Magnitsky Act.[11]
- ^ Václav Štětka, The Rise of Oligarchs as Media Owners in Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective with Jan Zielonka as editor, Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 0198747535, pp. 85-99.
- ^ Delia Hallberg, Marinus Ossewaarde, Protest and Recognition in the Bulgarian Summer 2013 Movement in Protest, Social Movements, and Global Democracy since 2011, with Thomas Davies, Holly Eva Ryan, Alejandro Milcíades Peña as ed., Emerald Group Publishing, 2016, ISBN 1786350270, pp. 85-107.
- ^ Heather A. Conley, James Mina, Ruslan Stefanov, Martin Vladimirov, The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe, CSIS Reports, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 1442279591, Chapter #4, The Unvirtuous Cycle of Corruption, pp. 17-22.
- ^ Bulgaria, Breaking up with Peevski, Bulgaria's government must cut ties with the oligarchy, Eastern approaches, The Economist, Sep 20th. 2013, by V.V.B. Sofia.
- ^ "UK sanctions high profile Bulgarian figures involved in corruption".
- ^ "US cleans up Bulgarian mafia". Jun 3, 2021.
- ^ "Parliament.bg".
- ^ "Public Designation of Five Bulgarian Public Officials Due to Involvement in Significant Corruption".
- ^ "U.S. Departmet of the Treasury sanctions three Bulgarians".
- ^ UK sanctions high-profile Bulgarian figures involved in corruption. UK Government press release, 10 February, 2023.
- ^ Пеевски на среща с посланика на Украйна: Аферата "Лукойл" трябва да бъде разкрита, 16 November, 2023.