Vasil Bozhkov

[10] He has been a member of the Confederation of Large Industrialists and of the Bulgarian Business Club "Vazrazhdane" since the founding of each of the two associations in 1993 and 2001.

[12] Bozhkov owns a collection of antiques, which historian Bozhidar Dimitrov claims were exported from Bulgaria before 1911 and purchased abroad.

[14] In 2011 the National History Museum hosted the exhibition "Thrace and the Ancient World XV-I century BC.

[16] In 1993, Bozhkov founded the sports betting agency Eurofootball, which since 2002 has included Greek billionaire Sokratis Kokkalis as a partner with his company Intralot.

[17] In February 2019, with a special press release from the company "Nove Holding" Bozhkov announced that he became the owner of PFC Levski Sofia and took care of its management, financing and long-term development.

[18] The businessman claims that for a period of one year he has invested nearly 25 million Bulgarian levs in the club.

[19] The financial circles and the press have expressed doubts that Bozhkov is manipulating the minority owners by draining Nove Holding by taking out non-public subsidiaries[20] and bonuses for himself.

[21] On 5 January 2009, the General Meeting of Holding Roads voted for Bozhkov an additional remuneration of 3.84 million levs.

Together with Todor Batkov, Grisha Ganchev and the brothers Krassimir and Nikolay Marinovi, Bozhkov was given as an example "of some of the most famous connections" of Bulgarian business with organized crime.

[29] On 8 June 2020, Bozhkov announced from his rented apartment in Dubai that he had plans to enter politics after returning to Bulgaria.

While under house arrest, on 21 February 2024, Vasil Bozhkov announced the formation of a new political party which was to be called "CENTER".

[33] The prototype of one of the characters in Lyudmila Filipova's first novel – "Anatomy of Illusions", Boris Bukov, is Vasil Bozhkov.