Erol Emin Myumyun

Public record

Compiled from publications and official records as of 01.11.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.

Corruption and scandals

• Pre-trial proceeding over the shelter procurement. According to Кърджали Нюз, citing the site Кърджали бг вести, the regional police directorate in Kardzhali opened a pre-trial proceeding on 28 May 2026 into possible official crimes of particularly large scale in two public procurements, one of them for a new stray-animal shelter worth over BGN 5.3 million. Mayor Erol Myumyun was taken in for questioning and held for about three hours. Myumyun, deputy chair of ДПС, rejects the accusations and calls the Interior Ministry's actions "police harassment" (our translation). Interior minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said in a bTV interview that the mayor is being investigated in several cases, one on a signal about companies extorted by the mayor, and that the specific case concerns irregularities in the dog-shelter procurement; in the same interview the minister said the Interior Ministry is also checking the ДПС leader Delyan Peevski. By decision of the acting prosecutor general the case was moved to the Blagoevgrad District Prosecutor's Office to avoid doubts of a local conflict of interest. The investigative actions are to continue under the Blagoevgrad prosecutors. On 22 October 2026 Епицентър, citing БНР and 24rodopi.com, reports that the mayor was again taken away by police on an order for 24-hour detention, which was then changed to a search of his home and questioning at the district police station, and that he was released. The detention was on a signal from Monika Atanasova, former head of the municipal enterprise Обредни дейности, about "pressure being exerted" (our translation); on it a deputy mayor and the municipal secretary were detained in September. Atanasova was dismissed on disciplinary grounds and lost her cases against the municipality in two instances. On leaving, Myumyun said that "the use of the Interior Ministry as a club continues" (our translation). — Kardzhali News, 31.08.2026, Rikoshet, 01.06.2026, Epicenter, 22.10.2026
• Inflated prices at the youth centre. The economic-crime unit of the Kardzhali regional police directorate reports sharply inflated prices in the construction of a youth centre in Kardzhali. The municipality signed a contract with a contractor worth EUR 3,738,983 excluding VAT, of which EUR 1,933,120 under the Recovery and Resilience Plan. A large part of the work was priced at more than twice market prices, some activities at more than three times; data on document fraud in invoicing were collected. A 36-year-old man from the contractor company was detained for up to 24 hours, and the European Public Prosecutor's Office was notified. The project was approved in 2022 at BGN 2,320,000, and the sum in the contract signed three years later had grown more than threefold. The Interior Ministry's announcement does not name the mayor. — News.bg, 14.10.2026