Vasil Iliev

Vasil Iliev

Vasil Iliev was a Bulgarian mobster, businessman and wrestler.Infobox Person
name=Vasil Iliev
birth_date=1964
birth_place=Kyustendil, Bulgaria
death_date=April 25, 1995
death_place=Sofia, Bulgaria

Background

Vasil Iliev was born in 1964 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria. He was a very successful wrestler, becoming a national champion and heading the country's wrestling federation.

Criminal career

After the end of socialism, Iliev and a number of associates moved to Hungary, where they were engaged in some low-level criminal activities such as burglaries and car theft. Eventually he made a substantial amount of money and turned back to Bulgaria where he set up VIS (Vasil Iliev Security). The company's official business was in insurance and security, but this was really a front for criminal activity including extortion, selling stolen cars and contract killings and so on. The company was declared illegal in 1994 but it's activities continued under VIS-2, yet another front for Iliev's criminal empire. [Stoev, Georgi. "VIS", 2006]

Iliev later made millions smuggling petroleum into Serbia during the UN-imposed embargo [Kalchev, Hristo. "Neron the Wolf", 1995] . By this time, Iliev was arguably the most powerful crime boss in the Balkans.

Death

Vasil Iliev was murdered on April 25, 1995 in Sofia. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on his Mercedes-Benz as he left his favorite restaurant, creating a fake automobile accident to seal off the road. Iliev's death was so high profile that the Minister of the Interior arrived at the crime scene in minutes. Iliev's bodyguards, who were traveling in a separate car, remained unharmed. [ [http://www.b-info.com/places/Bulgaria/news/95-04/apr26.leff Balkan Info Newsroom report on Vasil Iliev's death] ]

The next boss of VIS was his brother Georgi Iliev. He was shot dead by a suspected sniper in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, little more than 10 years after his brother.

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/organizedcrimesyndicates/vis.html Organized Crime Syndicates - VIS

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