Bulgarian Court Delays Mobster Murder Case

Pictured here are two of the four defendants, who face court on charges of involvement in the gang-style shooting of Bonev and his five bodyguards. Photo by BGNES

Sofia City Court postponed once again the hearing of the trial over the murder of alleged mobster Milcho Bonev, dubbed Baj Mile, who was shot in 2004.

The next hearing has been scheduled for March 9.

Bonev, one of the founders of Bulgaria's obsolete ex-grouping SIC, was executed along with his bodyguards on July 30, 2004 in broad daylight in Slavia restaurant-garden in Sofia's Ovcha Kupel district.

Tihomir Dochev, Stilian Georgiev, Georgi Stefanov, and Anatoli Mankov, were arrested on charges of involvement in the gang-style shooting of Bonev and the five bodyguards.

Baj Mile was believed to be an important link in the drug trafficking and distributing network on the Balkans, investigated by Bulgarian and Serbian special services.

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