{"id":1698,"date":"2018-01-22T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:43:32","slug":"the-financial-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/publikatsiya\/1698\/the-financial-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Financial Mines &#8211; a report about murky banking interests in the Bulgarian coal industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Mines report has exposed dubious financial practices in the coal sector in Bulgaria over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The in-depth investigation, conducted over the course of several months by Greenpeace Bulgaria, raises concerns about Bulgaria\u2019s enigmatic energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki. The investigation sheds light on the banking and public interests that lie behind the economic activities fronted by Mr. Kovachki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Financial Mines\u201d focuses on 19 of over 150 companies that make up Mr. Kovachki\u2019s energy empire. \u201cKovachi\u2019s coal network\u201d includes three power plants, eight district heating plants and eight mines. \u201cThe Financial Mines\u201d shows the rampant social and economic problems arising from the work of these businesses, while pointing to the banking institutions that funded their financial transactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/db06f7e3-the-financial-mines_en_short.pdf\">The Financial Mines &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/d3a42465-the-financial-mines-press-release-en.pdf\">The Financial Mines &#8211; press release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/27877f1a-the-financial-mines-media-brief_4-pager-en.pdf\">The Financial Mines &#8211; media brief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/2827c49b-the-financial-mines-table_en.pdf\">The Financial Mince &#8211; financial table<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Mines report has exposed dubious financial practices in the coal sector in Bulgaria over the past 15 years. The in-depth investigation, conducted over the course of several months by Greenpeace Bulgaria, raises concerns about Bulgaria\u2019s enigmatic energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energia","tag-vuglishta","p4-page-type-publikatsiya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}