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 in Borovets, 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 in Vidin and Samokov. After Vasil 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 with Turkey.Soon he started smuggling narcotics. He became one of the biggest figures in drug trafficking in the Balkans along with Ivan "The Doctor" Todorov and Sreten Jocic.

Death

On December 7, 2003 Dimitrov was shot dead on Dam Square in Amsterdam. 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

*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 ]