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Vesselin Mareshki is best known for the iniexplicably low prices of the medicines that his drug stores sell, spelling the death of many smaller pharmacies nearby. Photo by BGNES

"They asked me to buy the club and rescue it from extinction. I said ok. After all this was not the first time that I was buying something totally useless."

Vesselin Mareshki, a controversial businessman, founder and owner of a large low-cost drug store chain, comments his decision to take-over financially troubled Lokomotiv Plovdiv football club in an interview for bTV channel. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, an avid football fan, personally talked Mareshki into the purchase.