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High-profile murders are emblematic of Bulgaria's transition from communist rule. In total, more than 100 figures from the underground world or controversial businessmen have been murdered since 1995. As a rule, the executors and masterminds remain unknown.
According to some analysts, organised crime in Bulgaria was boosted by the embargo on the former Yugoslavia put in place by the West in the mid-1990s, which gave criminals the opportunity to engage in large-scale smuggling.
Others see the influence of the powerful Russian mafia as the main factor in the development of organised crime in a country which had never had such "traditions" before. Many Bulgarian 'oligarchs' are believed to be in fact the managers of Russian 'dirty money'.
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