According to information available to us, an individual has been identified who is alleged to have extorted Ivelin Mihaylov on behalf of the Commission for Countering Corruption (CCC). The individual identifies himself as Plamen Vekov. There are indications that he is the same person who also exerted pressure on Deyan Ivanov, Deputy Mayor of the city of Varna.

Ivelin Mihaylov, Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Velichie Party in the 51st National Assembly, has undergone a polygraph test (lie detector examination) addressing four matters of key public interest.

At an extraordinary press conference held at the Bulgarian News Agency’s regional office in Pazardzhik, leading figures of the political party Velichie delivered a stark assessment of Bulgaria’s electoral climate, framing the deployment of a full-scale international observation mission by the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) as an unmistakable sign of systemic democratic distress.

Today, at the behest of the leader of the PP Velichie, Mr. Ivelin Mihailov, the adviser of the parliamentary group, Mr. Kolyo Paramov, visited the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Sofia. He offered heartfelt condolences to His Excellency Ambassador Ali Reza Irvash on the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.