any, it's exactly there. so we are really very care mafia expert. renata scalia has repeatedly warned tuscan authorities involved. i've been for years, we've been raising the alarms, the mafia is here in tuscany, but it falls on deaf ears. the conventional wisdom says we shouldn't raise the issue, because i've seen a smearing tuscany on a reputation on a reputation, and more importantly, in environment. now, in need of being cleaned up, adam rainey, how does your tuscany? ah, this is al jazeera, these top stories, the report set up to 4 people have been crushed to death at couples airport, as afghans desperately tried to leave that country, they says it's impossible to evacuate thousands of people by the august 31st deadlines set by us president joe biden. most countries have agreed to take in

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after the global financial crisis. you've taken home more than $480000000.00. your companies now bankrupt our economies in the state of crisis. i have a very casey question. this is their last home, the us who held responsible. i will be fabulously wealthy and i will not take any price for us. thank you lloyd. the man who still on al jazeera the 2020 public fury of corruption. and i'm so gary political elite erupted into widespread since then, the crisis is seen to inconclusive elections. a 310 prime minister, forced from office and other prominent officials, mighty and scandals, are accused of his power, with no immediate end in certainty. sights we seem to find them both hearings so

ah. the ill guerria is one of europe's poorest nations. and many people here think they know why some blame corruption, which is the worst in the you. others say it's impossible to disentangle bulgarian problems from its communist past. but almost everyone seems to agree on one thing. alleged crimes at the highest echelons of government or stealing the country future . so when stage aggressive appeared on social media in

july 2020 of long standing bulgarian prime minister boy to borrow a soft fast asleep in bed with a hand gun lying on a bedside cabinet. the top drawer of which his tools opened, revealing was the 5 and read your notes and several gold ingots. it seemed to confirm what many people already see it. europe, leader. next to his bed. that looks like a mafia, but he denied that the money and the go use his property. but the guns he said, year found clipping with the gun and continuously with the gun because i feel very unsecure. it cools the sensation unheralded. a flurry of government scandals that came inside it with the biggest st. processed in bulgaria for nearly a decade. somehow borrow soft. was it the stone that she paid the

price in april 2021. when the country went to the polls, borrow soft good party when it flows chair the vote for use. as bulgarians turned in trays to a tree with newly formed anti corruption parties. but with nuclear winter occurred, take a prime minister was installed until the fresh election to be held 3 inflation in july, i will get a like a puzzle piece of gold piece of money piece of crime. and people finally look at the understand the big picture. ah, whether it's as a black belt in karate. oh, a god fearing champion of the orthodox safe for a seasoned prime minister on the world stage. i've been but not to mention

a best friend to the most powerful politician in europe. it would appear that k boris saw enjoys warmth and respect from political and religious leaders around piccolo. and i'd like to go good with real level. and i boris of is bulgaria longest serving rouelis and communistic tater to shift golf you over . so one of europe's horses, tito, terry regimes with fool slaven political assassinations and dozens of concentration camps like this wanted bethany, where inmates considered enemies of the state where worked to death. their bodies fed to takes this little door next to where to get the consent of

luggage. so it's in the java bogus get to so to java, not just get to watching emma my audience and yet shift coffee house. an hour from the capital has become a shrine for visitors among the items on display, a series of photographs reveal something rather interesting. look closely at this one, and you will see a familiar face. it's boy co boris off. poco motors are not only the bodyguard of the former but get in the the shift, but he was also a member of the communist party until 1992, if i'm not mistaken. the grand buildings and monuments may be falling into decay, but the communist legacy continues to talk bulgaria. no one has ever been punished

for the countless atrocities committed during the communist period. it never happened because the communist party into security services, they hit absolutely the coal control upon this effect. so when the war fell down, they just convert to the whole political power on economical they stoled all the resources. the effects on the gary's economy was catastrophic. and the freckled, the author nomics and we'll get it out. the induced cells close to the other atlanta for both to c panel. then it will vote in the fashion of the photos in a little over a little one thing that survived from

the communist era was the office of the chief prosecutor who back then was answerable to no one. imposing the will of dictated toto shift coffee by terror. well, garcia took as opposed to the postal that institute for digital brocker. some of this both of the economy. just keep with ski and not net and there's a lot going in the corners. the current chief prosecutor, ivan gasha, was hand picked by boris off. if you're opposing the government or you're opposing certain decisions that are taken by the government, you are at risk to be prosecuted. kind of had kind of traffic on it in the for the month of last supported the just because of love. quit to privilege to both variable firm. keep driven in the cracks. because because you have a net. net, democratization. that question, over on the con petitions from boris sauce,

good party perceived as above the law and have often been caught using e u money for their own personal benefit, while much of gary languishes in poverty. this magnificent luxury house was built and paid for from a 100000000 euro, you aid package, which was supposed to go to help impoverished rural communities. the owner of this pile a former economy minister, embarrassed good government has neither being prosecuted nor had his fabulous country has confiscated me. similarly, no action was taken against goods. agriculture minister, death his lover to nathan. he was recorded in december 2020, telling her team to keep quiet, about alleged misuse of you money. now

i'm if you lose money, if it's going to you so much. the misappropriation misuse of your you, fans is not a bulgarian phenomena every single year. all life is getting out cases like this in each and every european union countries joining the you clearly provided new opportunities for corrupt officials. the process started after we became a full members and european union in 2007. the aim of our ruling, quote. our look to procedure was to get the excess therapy and money to have been fund. indeed, some question whether you funding has actually benefited to guerria you hello, even more exciting situation in which the capture model has been finalized by

european subsidies in the next 6 years will get is eligible to receive close to 30000000000 euros. just to give you an idea, this is minus 50 percent of will get engine. the p. things came to a head in 2020. when chief prosecutor ivan gasha ordered, arrayed on the offices of the president, the stones critic, a bar. so he accused of having links to corruption. it sparked a constitutional crisis, the attack, the president's office, and take some of the advisors or some of the vice president people gathered outside the presidential parish to show their support and the president johnson. but in the coming days, it turned ugly. however, despite a brutal police track down, the protests continued a

year later and was born so still might in scandal. his political rivals saw an opportunity to hey grant, as the july election approached, cost didn't cross the dental is just want to kansas fringe politicians to benefit from boss was a full right firebrand moon for his n. s a big fuse, the white cotton, a butcher, as a body, so new charlotte, jeanette and charlton. but as a duty, bush will pull dominant for fun for both the politic nothing of a $7000.00 and of august kind of money off the senate. they checked. union, the problem to one, not just us in our with trusted enough was never likely to oppose an electoral threat to boris off. whose main challenge came from this man. celebrity church's host slavish 5th enough, he likes to portray himself as a tough guy ready to take on the establishment. his that is such

a people party came 2nd in april 2021. inconclusive election, driven off, refused to speak to the media, and no one really knew what his process stood for. assistance from also just sort of take it to show them as long as the principal send to the super holding. this is totally out the door for me to show them 40 tickets for me and sending them the institute. the tickets to name over it. say, indeed, chris, enough was conspicuous by his absence from the 2020 protests which attracted thousands for over 3 months. to day scale down protests continue inside the palace of justice. headquarters of boris of controversial chief prosecutor, who unlike his boss, is still in office. a permanent vigil is maintained here by several activists, including di, nice, he is a senior orthodox priest venture, not within a bush,

just now called for me to stop with us to this store. this is an abyss show that your municipal court is inevitable to those in your court. the naval the phone. tiffany: certainly, yvonne gotcha. and what if i get ship done for social steve? i guess you're for some your book is probably to watch a boost of no more about the video and had no solid in the fall off because it did go above the scope of just thought well, talk them is, are still 2 e money came into sharp focus when bulgarian businessman, alias, latin off went public about how a former prosecutor and associate of guess you attempted to take control of his elevator for which stood to make millions from an e. u. a package. when slat enough, refused to play ball. he said he was threatened to

move the elevator manufacturer was targeted following the announcement of a lucrative e u. h package to help repair much of the countries aging housing stuff which included upgrading elevators in thousands of multi story apartment blocks. we have about 100000 and final communist locks with very old elevators. and they are not compatible with the new requirements. so very expensive program worth 1000000000 and 100000 elevator. it's multiplied by tens of thousands of euro. you can get the figure. last enough was invited to a series of meetings at this restaurant, the 8 dwarfs by

a former official of the city, prosecuted general's office pitcher of rota. allegedly, he told less enough he could help him with his business. but at all known as the euro, or rather the euro, not everybody uses the make payment for him officially, but right. i think it's obvious. he prefer high value, you know, because they can be put in the water to reject. soon the meetings took a sinister lesson off, was told his son would be denied life saving medical treatment unless he signed the assets with millions to the criminals afraid for his son. and that he himself would be jailed on trumped up charges. latin off agreed to go to

the corner of a woman book because even this was the affair came to light in 2020. when nikolai sty, coffee, co founder of the anti corruption fund, and n g o supported by the us state department, preloaded his documentary about the crime on to youtube, which instant the went viral. soon after starting off, started to receive phone calls, hundreds of them asking if he had any childrens coffins, a thinly veiled threat to his young family. that was the 1st goal. and it was funny . initially, i am saying to her my condolences by the way and she's smiling, and then they get serious and more like business minded. so it was like this every 2030 minutes. feeling for his children's safety. sty cough. took them

into hiding food. he wouldn't be the 1st or gary to pay a heavy price for investigating corruption related to you money. victoria maneuver who was killed in 2018 was one of several high profile journalists who have died in mysterious circumstances in the last few years in bulgaria. waiting for them and they thought solely on muddy la to voting as with reference to several basically quit news. bear valley did him a post divorce, of course, with the computer me. shortly after the expose a monet, his body was discovered in riverside park and roofs in the north of the country. she had been beaten and raped. within 2 hours, the chief prosecutor's office announced that the murder had nothing to do with her

work, but many believe otherwise, including her colleagues, said no period of a conf. citric enough, quit to use. come at the foot of us with lena. very whole nuts of record to phone, to near to systemic to bow that he could do is committed for in the 2nd of a joint approach that it can group joint. you get out. she was going to probably know what does the switches of the burden put different of systems on it of almost as sceptical got to will be as popular. i don't say more of the confusion of his own invoiced persist fulton. they go on the toyota, but they said one of our married neighbors investigation certainly touch the ruinous, and the authorities were eager to close down speculation quickly. natalie. adopting in emotion. that's for him to be so as sort of proficient all of the sal frankie,

the 3 that was but i'm to the that he's done a project or 2 dogs just as a bow that you need to know the forest off continues to enjoy the support of angular merkel and the ease largest political grouping, the european people's party, which under the circumstances suddenly find difficult to understand. indeed, accusations against bar south and nothing new. as a leech cable, dating from 2006 in which john burl, than us ambassador to bulgaria, described, boris off as linked to almost 30 unsolved murders in the black sea republic. ah, sir, last year, when an audio recording appeared on social media of a man, sounding remarkably similar to barra, soft filing to burn, anti corruption, m. e p. elaine,

a young shaver. she was understandably alarmed. i remember listening to the several times trying to put in the sand. and of course, it was also a little bit scary because i don't hear every day a prime minister saying that who burden was i don't think there are any threats towards elena young children in that recording . i haven't heard the recording to be honest. i have no idea what the recording says. i don't, i myself requested the better guides for the type of voice in the lives of the american forensic laboratory. and the knowledge is conferred very high probability that the recordings out and that the voice belonged to the former prime minister. and the scandals kept coming as the july

2021 election approached this business man sweaters. lab ill, chowsky stepped forward, leveling allegations of racketeering and extortionate boris. off to whom he said he was forced to pay almost half a 1000000 years a year in protection money. he narrated all these things like we saw, lor, he make this a statement of an insider from all this network. and after that he, he just disappeared. the 2 days before the election. it was the 1st anniversary of the protesters. so there's no goals of our product. so this is the prime minister from the government. our 2nd role was made that does the whole work. so what i do know that the

country again, man is like, i'm sammy, a loss of hope was pinned on the shoulders of this month. boy rush coffee, university professor, who after being appointed interim interior minister in the caretaker government in april, doggedly pursued cover up to officials. he said, boris off should be investigated. miss l just also, but then moved to also live with you for many ditch solutions. does it budget, says eval for, but stopped in the circuit, but not the pro skills to for the going to beckons. it's not to people, cousin, informational evil but got a symbol, a good july. the 11th election day, despite a temperature of 35 degrees tonight was reasonable by

9 pm, the voting had stopped as printed, debated the various scenarios. it became clear that boris off would not win in the lead because almost a quarter of the votes was tv personality, sloppy tricina. but would he be able to form a government next day when the counting was finished, chris enough who won, but only secured a quarter of the seats in poland and released this message. it would pick up not now a pre call it just to turn up to us deployment. some of the old go bottles versus town and a part of it of the color it cost to ship the dog top, but i will done this a valid equality. unfortunately not a progress. we change one messiah, we can other another messiah is not

a democracy and water boris off. just after the po room went round that he had been summoned by the police, good, stalwart, gathered at the police station to greet the leader. as he arrived to talk with officers, whether these discussions will lead anywhere isn't yet known. mister boris off declined a request for an interview. so did the man he appointed his book areas chief prosecutor, ivan gasha, sir wolf next to bulgaria. more inconclusive elections. year long protests and an endless stream of corruption allegations have left the use poorest country. still looking for answers. since this film was made, fluffy driven ups, there is such a people party has given up trying to form a government after potential coalition partners refused to back his proposed list

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