In the close circle of Hristo Ivanov, a troll with corpulent physique and fat lies is poisoning the public consciousness with ceaseless falsehoods. In the last couple of weeks, the Yes, Bulgaria troll Ivo Mirchev, who presents himself as an IT expert, is diligently working to fulfil his quota. When he is not looking out for his boss Hristo Ivanov, his main job is to churn out lies about lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski.

An incubator for mouthpieces publicly defending the theses of the indicted and charged oligarchs in Bulgaria – that is what the so-called Anti-Corruption Fund is. Instead of doing the investigative work it received a grant four years ago to do, it serves society articles designed to vilify the public institutions that have been going after the NGO’s mentors so that those people can make themselves out to be victims instead of the criminals being prosecuted for their shady deals that they are.

Do you remember the short tale The Emperor's New Clothes? The ruler strutted naked before his subjects, having been convinced by his conniving tailors that he was wearing an invisible set of clothes? Well, Ognyan Stefanov, aka Agent Academician of the State Security – the paid mouthpiece of fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev, has assumed the trickster role, very apropos. Seemingly chastised by his mentor and the other indicted oligarchs for not carrying his own weight in the slandering chorus against enemy №1 of the behind-the-scenes clique in Bulgaria – lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski – Stefanov made it so that his website Frognews published old lies dressed up in a new set of words. The hope must have been that readers would be deceived and fail to see that those are nothing but just libel – naked and unsubstantiated.

Iliyan Vassilev, aka Agent Sasho of the State Security, has popped out of a brothel to fire a series of fake news shots against lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski. These days, the former associate of the obscurantist security agency of the communist regime has been acting like a Bangkok sexual worker – he is hovering around oligarchs and handing out business cards promoting his services. Of course, he is not doing that to get paid. And it does not matter if the money comes from Belgrade or Dubai.

Recipe №1: Take a piece of truth and add a spoonful of imagination

Recipe №2: Keep the truth in the freezer

Recipe №3: You do not have real facts? Then just concoct them!

Varna, the third largest Bulgarian city, is often styled as 'the seaside capital' of the country and is famous throughout the world for its wonderful beaches and thermal water springs. Less known, however, is the fact that the city has been built over the vestiges of an ancient Greek colony, which grew in an earlier Thracian place.

Vassil Bozhkov, known as Bulgarian El Chapo, with 18 charges filed against him, who is currently hiding in Dubai after defrauding the state coffers out of BGN 700m, rushed to defend his foster brother Plamen Bobokov.

The fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev sent a letter-declaration from his hiding place in Belgrade, putting an ultimatum to the court for him to be questioned and to make explanations by videoconferencing. He insisted the decision on his questioning to be taken immediately, but the judge refused him flatly.

The oligarchy has once again activated Boyko Noev, supposedly a NATO supporter but really a Kremlin subversive in addition to a former defence minister in the cabinet of Ivan Kostov. In an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio, he disseminated his latest fake news against lawmaker and Telegraph Media publisher Delyan Peevski. Noev lied that the National Service for Protection provides security services for the MP’s business. Of course, he failed to mention that there is a designated commission, made up of officials from the Ministry of Interior and the security agencies, that is tasked with determining who should receive such services on the grounds of existing threats to their life.

A day after a panel of judges of the Specialised Criminal Court fully acquitted the oligarch Ivo Prokopiev and his five accomplices in the EVN Bulgaria Electricity case, in which, according to the Prosecutor’s Office and the expertise presented in the courtroom, the treasury was damaged by over BGN 20m, this scandalous decision was expectedly applauded by the oligarchy.