Petar Volodiev Dilov

Public record

Compiled from publications and official records as of 23.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.

Russia

• Lukoil: seeking an exemption from sanctions for the refinery. On the bTV programme Защо, г-н министър?, Economy Minister Dilov said Bulgaria wants a derogation from the sanctions so that the refinery can keep operating (our translation), that he was sure it would be granted, and that the country had not worked with Russian crude for more than a year, actualno.com reports. — Actualno.com, 9 Nov 2025
• Proposed Rumen Spetsov as special commercial manager of Lukoil Neftochim. After an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers' Security Council, Dilov announced the government's proposal and said the head of the National Revenue Agency met all legal requirements, BTA reports. — BTA, 14 Nov 2025
• Vazrazhdane challenges the Spetsov nomination. Yordan Todorov of Vazrazhdane said that "Spetsov has no experience whatsoever of running such a company and does not even meet the minimum requirements for it" (our translation), that over the years he had more than once been linked to Delyan Peevski, and that the state acts as executor of Peevski's decisions, BTA reports. — BTA, 14 Nov 2025

Corruption and scandals

• Ministry gives no answer on Spetsov's Lukoil pay. Asked by opposition leader Mirchev about Spetsov's reported monthly pay of 185,000 leva at Lukoil, the Ministry of Economy and Industry answered that it does not hold the requested information (our translation) and that the management contracts contain no financial parameters. The figure is unverified, actualno.com writes. — Actualno.com, 8 Jan 2026
• Answer to a parliamentary question on state shops in post offices. In a written answer to questions from Ivaylo Mirchev of PP-DB on the planned state shops in post offices, proposed by Delyan Peevski's DPS-New Beginning, Dilov states that they do not affect trade in goods between member states (our translation), and that their effect on competition should be assessed by the Commission for Protection of Competition, actualno.com writes. — Actualno.com, 9 Apr 2025