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A businessman with properties in Great Britain
which he rents out - that's what Tanyo Danchev presented himself to his neighbors in our country
This is the Bulgarian convicted of siphoning 2 million and 200 thousand pounds from the island's social system
For 4 years - Tanyo Danchev organized the transportation of Bulgarians to Great Britain
There they applied for the "Universal Credit" social assistance
the sum of over 2 million pounds went into Danchev's pocket
The scheme was described by the British newspaper “Telegraph”
Danchev is the sixth person convicted of embezzling aid from the Island in the last six months
Our check shows that he lived luxuriously in Bulgaria
39-year-old Tanyo Danchev has already been sentenced to 7 years in prison after pleading guilty to 29 charges of fraud
there is no information about how many people applied for help under Danchev's scheme and what he gave them in return
From the commercial register in Great Britain
we understand that Danchev is connected to 3 companies
We have one - registered in the village of Kolarovo in Staro Zagora
expanded it and built a whole residence for himself,” says Georgi Tenev
Our team saw that the house has a pool and video surveillance
Only by the front door - there are three cameras
they don't know much about their fellow villagers
People in the village send us to a shop they claim is Danchevi's
the family's grocery store was suddenly closed and they didn't even put away today's press
five of our compatriots were behind bars for siphoning more than 50 million pounds from the British welfare system
Then we met Gunesh Ali's mother – one of the tartar juiciest of the bunch
Then the investigation started from Bulgaria
the scheme was unraveled by the anti-mafia Vasil Panayotov
He told bTV only how the fraud was carried out
“Fake landlord-tenant contracts are created where it is certified that such accommodation is paid
but dozens of persons are registered at the addresses”
It is assumed that in both cases the scheme operated on the same principle
with social benefits ranging from a few hundred to several thousand
More news from Crimes
The journalist died suddenly at the age of 32
The name of a journalist, working for the public-service broadcaster RTVS and private broadcaster TV JOJ, who suddenly died at the turn of 2016 and 2017, appeared in a resolution concerning the charges brought against controversial businessman Marian Kočner in the case of the murder of Ján Kuciak
The suspicion was voiced by Zoltán Andruskó, the Omediach.com website reported. He is one of the people who were detained last September in Kolárovo, and later charged in connection with the murder of Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová
“Alena [Zsuzsová] asked him [Andruskó] in summer 2016 to take her to the forest where they collected the death angel mushroom,” reads the resolution
was subsequently poisoned in late 2016.”
The first to report this testimony was TV JOJ
which did not initially name the journalist
The person in question is Leona Kočkovičová Fučíková
who reported mostly about the events in Nové Zámky and other locations in the south of the Nitra Region
Several independent sources have confirmed the information that the file contains her name to Omediach.com
adding that there is only a short mention about her
Andruskó did not provide any further details
Kočkovičová Fučíková died suddenly at the age of 32
She was skiing with her family and nothing indicated that she had any health problems
they found she was bleeding into the brain
“There was no autopsy,” TV JOJ reported
“Doctors closed the case by saying it was acute leukaemia
adding that the reason for her death was massive bleeding into the brain.”
The reporter’s husband told the broadcaster that Kočkovičová Fučíková did not know Zsuzsová
He also did not know about any threats or fears
The reporter did not deal with Kočner’s scandals either
There are several possibilities as to why Andruskó talked about the reporter’s poisoning
“Zsuzsová could have used the death to scare Andruskó
claiming that he could end up like her if he did not listen,” said the broadcaster’s reporter
Zsuzsová may have been interested in getting rid of Kočkovičová Fučíková
but the reporter died without her involvement
there is also a possibility that Andruskó’s testimony is based on truth and Leona was really poisoned,” Haraksin reported
Neither the police nor the prosecutor’s office have commented on the case so far
TV JOJ has meanwhile contacted a hospital in Banská Bystrica
The respective authorities are now trying to learn more about the reasons for the reporter’s sudden death
Police officers that the Dennik N interviewed say that Andruskó most likely mentioned Kočkovičova's name only because he remembered she died
He did not say anything that would suggest Zsuzsova was behind it
It is not clear why the name of the deceased journalist even appeared in the investigation file
water mills were a feature of almost every village along the larger rivers of Central Europe
While several “fixed” mills along river banks have been preserved
there is only one surviving floating mill among all the countries of the Visegrad Four
its wheel turned just once at Kolárovo before becoming non-functional
While several “fixed” mills along river banks have been preserved
in Kolárovo on the Little Danube River
its wheel turned just once at Kolárovo before becoming non-functional
owner Ivan Šáli told the ČTK newswire
“The mill wheel turned the first and also the last time when the tugboat brought it from its original place in Komárno to Kolárovo,” Šáli added
This is not the original work but a functioning replica of a mill that used to work somewhere on the Danube River near the municipality of Radvaň on the Danube
“But several parts are from the original mill,“ Šáli added
There are believed to be only three surviving mills of this type in the world
the other two being in Austria and Slovenia
there used to be dozens of floating mills on the Danube and Váh rivers
“There were five to seven of them just in Kolárovo,“ Šáli said
their numbers decreased after a ban on further construction was introduced because they posed an obstacle to expanding river-borne ship traffic
After World War II and post-war communist-era collectivisation
The mill in Kolárovo was built at a cost of four million Czechoslovak crowns in the Komárno dockyards in 1982
based on a two-metre scale model by a master miller
The original mill was owned by Béla Szivanyó and was constructed in around 1920
did not find a proper use in Komárno and gradually decayed
thousands of people a year see this unique work in southern Slovakia
“The mill was in danger of being destroyed a second time after it was brought to Kolárovo and renovated,” Šáli claims
The town rented the mill to a group of young men who turned it into a pub for several months
“The first thing they did was to saw off some parts with a chain saw,” the current owner said
The damage amounted to Sk140,000 (about €4,600)
but Šáli noted that it lacks a river current because five years after the mill was hauled to Kolárovo
the body managing the river closed down the part on which the mill lies because of the planned construction of the Nagymaros dam
“The river level was supposed to rise and fall by four metres every day – the old dams would not have been able to manage this difference,” Šáli explained
Šáli said he does not want to risk starting the mill wheel with an electric motor for tourists’ sake because the power of the blades could tear the boats that support the mill wheel from their anchorage and damage them
Visitors can reach the mill across what is perhaps the longest wooden roofed bridge in Central Europe
It was built in 1995 to replace the original
tourists can see a farmer’s house and yard
a traditional bread oven used to bake salty baked goods
and historical engine-powered weaving looms to make fish nets
This was stated to NOVA by former football player Petko Ganchev
You've probably heard that he was honored with a minute of silence before the start of a football match
Now Petko jokes that he is living a second life after his resurrection
he offered us his unconventional view on the tragicomic story that made us famous around the world
Petko Ganchev once again recounted the events surrounding the "lobby" day
His wife met him and explained what had happened
He wants to know who read it and who said this to the announcer
"I'll also bother the prosecutor's office," says Ganchev
but noted that everyone believes in something
He admits that he is already tired of talking about this case
he wants to go to the match he has been invited to
go out in front of the audience with a microphone and tell everyone that he is alive
More news from Sport
Last season a smaller number of locations of overwintering owls was counted
During the winter the Slovak public was included in counting long-eared owls
they counted 792 long-eared owls overwintering in 65 places
“We regularly monitor their occurrence and note important information about location
the number of overwintering long-eared owls and disturbing factors in the environment,” explained Tomáš Veselovský from Raptor Protection in Slovakia
The long-eared owl is an owl with orange eyes and feathers on the head resembling ears
It is a species of owl which is observable from October to March near human residences
long-eared owls gather in flocks and during the day they rest nearby parks
Their flocks are now slowly dividing as the season of nesting begins
The males woo females and show acrobatic feats
added Tomáš Veselovský
The counting of long-eared owls at overwintering places has been implemented by Raptor Protection in Slovakia since 1992
“More than half of the information for this season was gained by cooperation with the public
The biggest number of long-eared owls overwintered in Hurbanovo and Kolárovo
approximately 50 owls,” said Veselovský
last season a smaller number of locations of overwintering owls was counted
Their numbers are influenced by several factors
such as weather conditions and availability of food
mainly voles,” explained Veselovský
1,353 long-eared owls were counted in 53 places
The biggest overwintering place of long-eared owls is in Serbia
Ornithologists counted almost 700 owls during one day in the city centre.