Delyan Peevski

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Delyan Slavchev Peevski (Bulgarian: Делян Славчев Пеевски, born 27 July 1980) is a Bulgarian politician and oligarch, who serves as the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS). He is sanctioned by both the United States and the United Kingdom for corruption, bribery and embezzlement. He is also a former media mogul and is a member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria since 2009. A member of DPS, which he leads since 2024, Peevski was elected as the director of the State Agency for National Security in 2013, which triggered the 2013–2014 Bulgarian protests against the Oresharski cabinet that led to the eventual resignation of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski. In June 2021, the United States Department of the Treasury designated Peevski, the public official Ilko Zhelyazkov, and the Bulgarian oligarch Vasil Bozhkov, along with 64 entities owned and controlled by Bozhkov and Peevski, for their roles in public corruption, pursuant to Executive Order 13818, which builds upon and...

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