Another Murder Attempt Surfaces on Record of Bulgarian 'Killer'

Another assassionation attempt has been added to the record of the group of suspected Killers. Photo by BGNES

One of the five detainees in Operation “Killers” of the Bulgarian police is now under investigation for one more murder.

Georgi Petkov, aka Dachi, who was busted together with four other men as part of a group of paid assassins over the murder of controversial football club president Yuriy Galev in June 2010, is now suspected of having carried out a 2005 attempt on the life of another gangster.

This has been announced by the Regional Prosecutor of Varna, Vladimir Chavdarov, who only said that Dachi was brought to Varna for interrogation.

Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov explained later that the “Killer” is suspected of carrying out the failed assassination of Ivaylo Paynov, aka Giovannito, a gangster known for his involvement in car theft rings in Spain.

Giovannito is known for having changed his names several times and his other nickname is “The Hundred Names”. After being a car thief for several years, he was sentenced by a Spanish court in 2003. He came back to Bulgaria's Varna the following year.

In 2005, he was shot in his own disco club “Soho” in downtown Varna. A former Miss Varna model, Mihaela Mircheva, who was with him, was also wounded in the assassination attempt. Giovannito's wife and son were shot in Varna in December 2009.

Georgi Petkov, aka Dachi, is one of the five men arrested as part of a paid assassins group. He was released on bail together with three of the other “Killers” on August 3, with a court decision that caused a renewed war of words between the judiciary and the Interior Ministry.

Subsequently, on August 9, Dachi was arrested and left in jail on suspicions of trying to carry out the murder of Kamen Balbuzanov, aka “The Cop”, a large-scale drug lord controlling the cocaine trade and much of local life in the northern city of Pleven.

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