CORRUPTION IN SOCIETY
(Archaeology & culture)
I believe that the corruption is one of the cancers of the
post-modern society. However, we, the homos, have
to find the best therapy for this social disease.

The goal of this website is to contribute to a
humanistic society. We do publish and update
information for corruption and do delete texts in cases
of which our social evaluation and activities have a
positive result.


Media and corruption
Malcolm Moore (Daily Telegraph) (August 31st,
20007) (.pdf)
Meaningless and misleading article coming to cover
the  Director of the National Museum in Sofia, Dr
Bozhidar Dimitrov,  who is the one involved in one of
the biggest affairs in Bulgarian Archaeology -
Dubene-
Balinov Gorun (the anonymous false story, with which
the article starts) . The article was translated into
Bulgarian and distributed through
journey.bg where
one can be read the truth in our publications, the last
one published on August 8 (
journey.bg) where the
Dubene affair Dimitrov - Nikolov - Hristov was
mentioned and the Bulgarian media criticized . The
article by Malcolm Moore has been following the
traditions of 2005-2006 when Bozhidar Dimitrov
involved the Bulgarian media to distribute a non-
truthful version of Dubene gold (see below). But
because of the unpopularity of the topic in Bulgaria
media today, a new journalist showed up - Malcolm
Moor from United Kingdom with absolutely non-
professional and misleading text. Shame on Daily
Telegraph!
Ask Malcolm Moor about this article via e-mail:
malcolm.moore@telegraph.co.uk
E-mail sent to Malcolm Moor (Sept 3rd, 2007):
Attn: Malcolm Moon

Your misleading article made you our new hero in
corruption and archaeology!
http://www.iianthropology.org/dubenegoldarchiv.html
http://www.iianthropology.org/corruptionarchaeology.
html

The media needs the truth!

You can send us your answer to be published
including:
How did you choose the topic?
Who invited you in the National Museum of History?
Why didn't you talk to the Director of the National
Museum of History?
How can you prove all mentioned data about the
treasure-hunters, illegal excavations and abroad
channels?
What do you know about the Dubene-Balinov Gorun
affair? Isn't it interesting to you as a journalist?
Why don't you write about the decades of the
excavations of the most respectful Bulgarian
archaeologists which are the real image of the
Bulgaria and the Bulgarian archaeology?

We are waiting you to answer our questions in Daily
Telegraph!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Lolita Nikolova,PhD
International Institute
of Anthropology
http://www.iianthropology.org
lnikolova@iianthropology.org

Government and Culture

National Archaeological Institute with Museum,
Sofia, Bulgaria.

On the 4th of  April 207 Journey published our article
about the
discussion about the Gold Diploma of
Vassil Nikolov, the Director of the National
Archaeological Institute with Museum. Instead
responding to the article and answering the questions
in it, NAIM immediately issued on April 5th
a picture of
Vassil Nikolov next to the President.
Typical model of the corruption in Bulgaria - the social
actors try to demonstrate close contacts with
government or political leaders .

Ministry of Culture, Bulgaria, the organizer of the
exhibit of the Thracian treasures in Basel, Switzerland,
March-July 2007. Many questions:
1. 360 or 640 objects were sent to Basel? The Ministry
of Culture sent 340 objects while Basel reports that
had received 640 objects!
2. How does this exhibit relate to the Statement of
Stefan Danailov in the Parliament? The Minister of
culture promised not all Thracian treasures will be
sent abroad at once.
3. Why is the scientific head of the project a non-
specialist in Thracian archaeology? Vassil Nikolov is a
prehistorian.
4. Why is the scientific head of the project a extremely
corrupted person, one of the architects of the Dubene-
Balinovgorun affair?
5. Why we have a workshop Trinken wie die Thraker?
How does the corruption work in Bulgaria
1. False or hidden information.
Ministry of culture published on its website info about 360 finds
but after the topic became hot, obviously the information was
removed (visit of the home page on April 5th, 2007).
3.
No answer. Still there is no answer from the Ministry of
Culture.
3.
Covering the discovered corruption with exciting information
about success
. After sending re-email regarding the exhibit,
instead explanation, the Ministry of Culture distributed a
newsletter about the huge success of the exhibit in Basel.

Internet

India
Tutor Vista. 5 min after signing in for a tutor, I called to
cancel the subscription since felt that something is
totally wrong with the offered one week free of charge
service. However, a week later my account was
charged and a receipt was received via e-mail for an
service that was never ordered. The company's
representative talked on the phone English which one
cannot understand in some cases even at all. It
occurs Tutor Vista works from India (even with 1800
number). After a series of phone calls and e-mails
and especially after writing to the President of the
company, finally an e-mail was received about a
coming refund.
We found info that "Tutor Vista, MakeMytrip and
Cleartrip received their two rounds of funding earlier
this month. Tutor Vista, an online tutorial company,
received $10.75 million from investment groups
including Lightspeed Ventures, Sequoia Capital India
and Silicon Valley Bank" (
http://www.podtech.
net/home/Venture+Capital/feed). Where do this money
go if this company charged in this way?
The messages about Tutor Vista on Internet look
more similar to all bulk and corrupted offers (type
Work from home). For instance:
Public service advertisement:
"Do you want to be a teacher without going to school?
Here is a chance to stay at home in any part of the
country, teach, and get paid handsomely. Bangalore
based Tutor Vista has introduced online tutoring for
children in the US and the UK. All that the tutor needs
is a […] "
Does it look professional and serious?
We can also learn that the target of Tutor Vista are the
American Children (
http://accidentalblogger.typepad.
com/accidental_blogger/2006/08/hitler_and_home.
html).
Why? Just because the American children have
presumably rich parents, I believe.
There is even a blog about Hitler as a homework with
a reference to Tutor Vista? Who gave a license to this
company? How do these children communicate the
customer service if one can understand from the
Indian English probably one word in 20? And this an
educational institution!
We read about the President that he works from home
(
http://www.washingtontimes.
com/business/20061231-110345-7666r.htm)
We received a letter with a offer for one month free
services, but we did not respond since it started with a
statement that they tried to have reached us without
success, which was not true.
LN

Politics and Government

BULGARIA
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Re: info about a hosting of Bozhidar Dimitrov by the
Ministry of Culture (28.02.2007)
Questions to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria
and the Prime Minister (.
pdf in Bulgarian)(2-28-07)
__________________________________________
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Evidence about a possible false diploma used by a
member of the Bulgarian Parliament (
.pdf in
Bulgarian) (2-24-07)
__________________________________________
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Boris Velchev about the corruption (
.pdf file)
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Dimitur Gundev (.pdf file), a deputy from the Socialist
party

__________________________________________
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Anarchists fight against the corruption
__________________________________________
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Siderov fights against political corruption
__________________________________________
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Archaeology

What is common in archaeology corruption?

People with power involved
Official apathy
Money and highly valuable objects and sites involved

BULGARIA    

Corruptions in 2004-2005: National Museum of
History  (
Director Bozhidar Dimitrov) and
Archaeological Institute with Museum (
Director Vassil
Nikolov). The cemetery gold finds from Dubene,
Karlovo (http://www.iianthropology.org/Dubenegoldeba.
html), without any reason were brought to Sofia
instead in the Museum of History in Karlovo City which
is abt 7 km from the site.

And more: Vassil Nikolov lied on Guardian on Aug 17
2005 (http://www.iianthropology.
org/Dubeneinthemedia.html) that at Dubene was
discovered a treasure which is older and bigger than
Troy. However, next year strange practices in the filed
and new information even from Bozhidar Dimitrov
showed that in fact in 2005 obviously we knew just a
little bit about the real Dubene-Balinov Gorun
finds.          

The Internet archive shows (see  6 Oct 2004, Focus)
that in 2004 Vassil Nikolov had already felt a criminal
when took the gold mask from Kazanluk for the
Archaeological Museum in Sofia. But not many knew
that together with the mask from Kazanluk, he had
another corruptive project - taking the objects from
Dubene to National Museum of History. Against the
Bulgarian law, he even announced in the media that
would not let know the place of discovery.        

Since April 2005 Archaeological Institute in Sofia has
been warranted that the site of Dubene - Balinov
Gorun has been excavated by a non-professional
without knowledge on the techniques of excavation of
prehistoric cemeteries. Under the protection of Vassil
Nikolov, the archaeologists Martin Hristov continued in
Summer 2005 to gather gold objects caring them to a
private house in Dubene and after that to Sofia
National Museum while in 7 km was the City Museum
of Karlovo.        

The first results of the publication are devastating.
That archaeologist not only has no experience in
archaeological excavations and social moral in
accordance with the today’s global thinking, but he
even does not know the world directions. In the first
official publication of the Dubene gold finds – The
catalogue of the exhibit of Bulgarian treasures (Rome,
February – March 2006) he insists that the village to
which the cemetery belonged was in southeast while
it is in southwest direction.  

In other words the Bulgarian archaeology corruption
shows that it occurs among low-intelligent people,
whose attempt to compensate their intelligent deficit
include breaking social moral norms and in fact
attempting to destroy the fundamentals of the
archaeology as a humanistic and highly skilled
profession in which the artifacts are records but not a
victims of professional treasure-hunters with
government documents who collect finds for specific
museums and/or for unknown purposes    

Brussels scandal
What the people think about Vassil Bozhkov after
Brussels
(
.pdf)


PERU
External links:

Luis Jaime Castillo Butters and Elias Mujica Barreda:  
Exchanges -- Interamerican DialoguePeruvian
Archaeology: Crisis or Development? (SAA Bulletin 13
(3)).(
http://www.saa.org/publications/saabulletin/13-
3/SAA9.html).... "....A Peruvian archaeologist's
perception is that under the unclear state-imposed
regulations, it is easier for a looter to conduct
excavations than a professional."

Massoud Ansari: Monumental Disaster (
http://www.
newsline.com.pk/NewsAug2004/expose.htm) One of
the world's greatest ancient wonders, Moenjodaro
[Pakistan], is crumbling due to official callousness
and corruption......"Official apathy can be gauged from
the fact that only two years ago, unknown criminals
broke into the Moenjodaro museum and took away 40
important seals. These rare seals were discovered
from over a dozen sites. The seals were engraved with
animal motifs, especially bulls, while many seals
were inscribed in a script, which is yet to be
deciphered. The stolen seals include one which
depicts a unicorn and seven pictographs, another
depicts animal figurines and 10 pictographs on one
side, and still another features an elephant and
manger on one side, and four pictographs on the
other. A detailed inquiry conducted by the local police
revealed the involvement of some senior officials of
the archaeology department, as well as a UK-based
archaeologist in the theft....
Is it really fun what this "archaeologist" has been
doing with people and especially colleagues,
material culture, institutions, etc?
The picture is from
the official Web site of NAIM
Why does he smile - despite the Balinov gorun affair,
the slanders and false presentation of evidence in the
media and the corrupted social behavior in the
everydayness? Probably because the government
and the Archaeological Institute in Sofia do not care.
Can you see
any free
samples on the
website of
Tutor Vista?
No.
Can you read
e-mails of
customers who
are satisfied
from Tutor
Vista? No.
We are waiting
for students to
write us about
their
experience
with Tutor
Vista.
Vassil Nikolov, Director of National Archaeological
Institute with Museum - a slander, an author of
falsification in the media and one of the architects of
the Dubene-Baligorunov affair. He issued in
December 2006 that 360 archaeological objects will
be sent to Basel, an information later distributed
officially by the Ministry of culture of Bulgaria and
even by the President's website, while Basel received
in February 640 objects according to the website of
the museum and the western media. But even the
Bulgarian President's website published information
about 360 objects.
Hot! Hot! Hot!
Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria sent 360 objects for
the exhibit in Basel of the Thracian treasures,
according to their official information, while Basel
Antikenmuseum reports that have 640 objects.
The Bulgarian media is silent and does not want
to learn the truth.  
Even more.
On March 2, 2007, Vassil Nikolov,
who issued the figure of 360 objects sent to Basel,
was given a Gold diploma by the
European Forum
of Experts
(unknown for the scholars and public
organization, without website   (Response, .pdf in
BG, Journey)
A day after our article in Journey (April 4th) on the
discussion about the "Gold Diploma" NAIM
published
a picture of Vassil Nikolov next to the
President. Will this picture help the corrupted
Director to be reelected after all the troubles he did
to the Bulgarian archaeology? Or probably soon we
will know many truths.
How does the corruption
work in Bulgaria?
One model is this case study: Attempts of the
corrupted goverment administrators to show that
they have "a big back" behind them. The most
popular back of Dr Vassil Nikolov is the President of
Bulgaria who obviously didn't know what to do for
this picture - to smile to the public or to listen
carefully to the "explanations" of Vassil Nikolov. He
obviously preferred the former. On the right side of
Dr Vassil Nikolov is Dr Peter Blomme, the Director of
the Basel Antikenmuseum. The last even found a
journalist of Euronews for a video film about the
exhibit. Obviously, we don't know a lot about the
exhibit.
However, none of the above social actors on the
picture had answered the main question: How did
Vassil Nikolov send 360 find to Basel and Peter
Blomme receive 640 finds for the exhibit Das Gold
der Thraker? We are waiting for an answer also from
the President.