BALCO in Bulgaria; Politician's Wife Distributing Drugs to Teams

News this morning from 'Focus Information', says that the wife of an important member of the Bulgaria Parliament, has been selling amphetamine to athletes in that country.  It appears that doctors and coaches were buying into the scheme.

A grand doping scandal broke in Bulgarian sport. A journalistic investigation by the Bulgarian Nova TV revealed that the wife of the MP from Coalition for Bulgaria Oleg Popov – Evelina, was selling banned stimulants. She even named football, gymnastics, sambo, judo and volleyball coaches she sold stimulants to. The former CSKA doctor Ivailo Yakimov confessed that stimulants had been bought from the scandalous firm.

The executive financial director of Levski club in Sofia Konstantin Bazhdekov described the scandal and the club’s name in it as insinuation. The program director of Kanal 3 TV channel Sasho Dikov stated the fact that an MP wife was selling stimulants was “appalling”. The doctor of the national football team Dr. Mihail Iliev said the case was “criminal”.

UPDATE:  More is coming out on this.  Found here now on the Bulgarian News Network.  The story states 'stimulant's.  Wrong.  Parabolin and Primobolan are anabolic steroids with cult followings.

SOFIA (bnn)- “I firmly reject all the accusations against me and my wife”, said for Darik radio the MP from Coalition for Bulgaria Oleg Popov, whose wife was charged by an investigation of Nova TV of selling illegal drugs.

Evelina Popova was distributing unregistered in Bulgaria medicine to sport doctors and Bulgarian teams, among which are known to be also national teams. The trade included also forbidden stimulation drugs and was covered behind the name of the company for nutritive additions, a brunch of the international “P M International”.
10 ampullas, each with different drug, costs about 57 leva. 10 ampullas of illegal vitamin B12 with acid costs 48 leva and 7 kinds of forbidden stimulating substances would cost you about 141 leva. Among these substances were the stimulants Winsrow, Metan, Parabolan and Primobolan.

The Sofia Weekly has this piece, which says undercover agents went into this bust.

Bulgarian prosecution has launched investigation in a case exposing the wife of a Bulgarian lawmaker in trading with illegal drugs, mainly for sportsmen.

The wife of Bulgarian socialist MP Oleg Popov has been selling forbidden drugs to a number of Bulgarian sports doctors, a report revealed.

Evelina Popova was busted by undercover Nova TV reporters, as she sold them drugs that are not allowed in Bulgaria. The report claims that her husband smuggled some of the substances in the country abusing his diplomatic immunity.

Popov denied any involvement with his wife's business and said for Darik News that the whole thing was a set-up.

Evelina Popova heads a nutritional supplements company in Bulgaria, branch of P-M International

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