Zlatko Sofroniev Zhivkov

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

• Charges over a public procurement and budget funds. Responding to the mayor's claims that the prosecution's actions were politically motivated, the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office states that on 03.12.2012 Z. Zh., mayor of Montana municipality, was charged with two offences. The first is misuse of office (Art. 282 Criminal Code) over a 2008 public procurement: according to the charge the aim was a benefit for Parkstroy OOD, consisting of the difference between the 243,537 lev offered and the contract signed for 730,721 lev, i.e. 487,184 lev, and false information about the contract value was given to the Public Procurement Agency. The second is spending 700,000 lev of budget funds outside their purpose in 2010 (Art. 254a(1) Criminal Code). The preventive measure is a signed undertaking. By decree of 11.02.2013 the Prosecutor General allowed the investigation to be conducted outside the Montana court district, under the supervision of a Sofia City Prosecutor's Office prosecutor, for objectivity and speed. The statement gives no outcome of the case. — Sofia City Prosecutor's Office, 05.03.2013
• Medicines bought from his wife's and daughter's pharmacy. Mediapool reports that the Conflict of Interest Commission found that in his previous term, in 2009 and 2010, the mayor pushed through a decision to buy medicines with municipal money worth more than 30 thousand lev. In the outlet's words, „Доставката е станала от аптеката на съпругата и дъщерята на кмета.“ (our translation: the delivery came from the pharmacy of the mayor's wife and daughter). The Commission also found that he put pressure on three employees, ordering them to approve the expenses without discretion. Part of the medicines were for war invalids, part for municipal schools and kindergartens. The decision can be appealed; if the Supreme Administrative Court upholds the conflict of interest, the mayor may be removed early. — Mediapool.bg, 21.07.2012