- Konstantin "Samokovetsa" Dimitrov
Infobox Person
name=Konstantin Dimitrov
caption=
birth_date=birth date|1970|11|21|mf=y
birth_place=Samokov ,Bulgaria
death_date=Death date|2003|12|7|mf=y
death_place=Amsterdam ,Netherlands Konstantin "Samokovetsa" Dimitrov (
November 21 ,1970 –December 7 ,2003 ) was a Bulgarian mobster involved in drug trafficking.Background
Konstantin Dimitrov was born in
Samokov ,Bulgaria .Career
At 16, he started working as a
bodyguard at Rila hotel inBorovets ,Bulgaria . He graduated in Public Administration at the National and World Economy University. In 1997-98 he was an agent of the notorious VIS insurance company inVidin and Samokov. AfterVasil Iliev 's death he started moving up in the ranks. According to his interviews for Sofia media, he dealt with trade, consultancy, import, restaurants-keeping and farming. In 2001 he declared a profit tax amounting to some 2 million levs from the activities of his firms based in Bulgaria. He also owned firms in Great Britain with annual profits amounting to £200,000 each. He owned a hotel, several apartments and houses in the Borovets and Bistritsa resorts. In 1997 he consulted for VIS and in May 2003 he consulted for Bulgarian and Cyprian companies, trading withTurkey .Soon he started smuggling narcotics. He became one of the biggest figures indrug trafficking in theBalkans along withIvan "The Doctor" Todorov andSreten Jocic .Death
On
December 7 ,2003 Dimitrov was shot dead onDam Square inAmsterdam . At the time of his murder, he was in the presence of Bulgarian model Tsetsi Krassimirova. Dimitrov was 31 years old.The gunman was chased by members of the public and later apprehended in a pub.References
* [http://www.standartnews.com/archive/2003/12/08/english/coverstory/s3928_2.htm Official business of Konstantin Dimitrov]
*Grigor Lilov,"Secrets of big players"
* [http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=28771 Bulgarian Underworld Boss Shot dead in Amsterdam]
* [http://www.geocities.com/organizedcrimesyndicates/vis.html Organized Crime Syndicates-VIS]ee also
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Bulgarian Mafia
*VIS (criminal organisation) External links
* [http://www.bulgaria-italia.com/bg/news/news/01129.asp Bulgarian Boss Shot Dead (Italian)]
* [http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/gangsters-at-war/id_8399/catid_5 Gangsters at war?]
* [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sbk6_history-channel-the-russian-mafia-3_politics Russian Mafia ]
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