Stanimir Vaglenov is a Bulgarian journalist working at Media Group Bulgaria.

He manages more than 50 online media channels. He has already investigated Osama Bin Laden's network in the Balkans, money laundering and child trafficking, among others. He also participated in several ICIJ projects, including Offshore Leaks and Big Tobacco Smuggling.

In 2007 he founded the Bulgarian Investigative Journalism Centre in Sofia. He has won numerous journalism prizes, including the Daniel Pearl Award and a Global Shining Light Award as part of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Ivanov Kumurdjiev published a book, Свалят правителството! (Overthrow the government!) – a collection of his work – and teaches investigative journalism at Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”.

Stanimir Vaglenov

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Name
Stanimir Vaglenov
Title
Journalist
Country
Bulgaria
City
Sofia
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Supported projects

Children Wrongly Placed in Adoption System

  • Human Rights
  • Social Affairs
  • Youth

BUDAPEST/SOFIA - When thinking about adoption, poor countries in the global South come to mind. Yet Flanders and the Netherlands adopt children from other European countries, such as Bulgaria and Hungary. This cross-border investigation shows that Roma children in these countries are discriminated against and end up in the adoption system due to stigma, poverty and a lack of support for families.

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Elderly care as a new lucrative playground for labour market fraudsters

  • Healthcare
  • Exploitation
  • Work

BRUSSELS - Vulnerable Bulgarian women are coming to Belgium and the Netherlands to live with elderly people who prefer to stay at home rather than go to a nursing home. They will care for these elderly people during the last years or months of their lives. This research is a case study of the practices of Seniorcare24, a major provider of these services in the Low Countries, and the fate of the caregivers seconded by this company from Bulgaria.

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