Nikolay Nidal Algafari

Public record

Compiled from publications and official records as of 19.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.

Communist Party and State Security

• His father – an agent of the State Security Sixth Directorate. Nidal Ahmad Algafari was recruited on 08.11.1988 by Capt. Svetlin Petrov as an agent, alias Nasko. The Dossier Commission declared his affiliation in Decision No. 54, on its check of Bulgarian National Television, where he was executive director in 2002–2004, and stated that it holds documents of his affiliation after 10.11.1989 as well. The affiliation rests on personal file IA-37198 and work file IR-17987. Wikipedia, citing blitz.bg, names his parents as Nidal and Madlen Algafari. — Dossier Commission, Decision No. 54/26.11.2008, Wikipedia (Bulgarian)

Corruption and scandals

• Police file over a PP-DB banner in Smolyan. Bairak.bg writes that on 20 March, at the height of the parliamentary election campaign, Daniel Aleksandrov, Nikolay Algafari and Rumen Aleksandrov of GERB's youth organisation committed an act in Smolyan that the outlet calls vandalism. All three were running for MP in Sofia. The occasion was a 13 by 7 metre banner hung by their PP-DB rivals on the facade of the post office in the town centre. According to the site, the Smolyan police opened a file, which, because of candidates' immunity, was sent to the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office. — Bairak.bg, 22.10.2023
• Proceedings over the Smolyan banner terminated. According to Bairak.bg, the Sofia prosecutor who took the file acknowledges that damaging another's property is a crime but finds it insignificant. The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office terminated the criminal proceedings under Art. 9(2) of the Criminal Code. — Bairak.bg, 22.10.2023
• His wife – an expert at the Ministry of Innovation and Growth. MIGNews.info, cited by Intrigi.bg, reports that by its check his wife has been an expert in the Policies and Analyses Directorate of the ministry since the end of 2022. There is no information on any later conflict-of-interest inquiry. — Intrigi.bg, 13.07.2025
• His wife – a member of the monitoring committee of an EU-funded programme. Intrigi.bg claims that Beduyan-Algafari, who has a humanities degree from Plovdiv University, is a member of the interdepartmental Monitoring Committee of the programme Research, Innovation and Digitization for Smart Transformation 2021–2027. According to the outlet, the committee, made up of chosen ministry representatives, distributes tens of millions from the European Union, and she has a decisive vote on which projects get funding. Nothing is known to have followed. — Intrigi.bg, 13.07.2025