Robert Maxwell- Mogilevich, (Solntsevo crime syndicate) -Russian Mafia in Bulgaria Maxwell- Mogilevich, (Solntsevo crime syndicate) -Russian Mafia in Bulgaria This sourced and comprehensive research link describes the global mafia network that Robert Maxwell facilitated. It describes his ties to Bulgarian communists and mafia, to Mossad, related to USSR, the (planned) rise of the Russian mafia after the fall of the soviet government. By no means exhaustive, some highlights in the research cover: Connections between late media tycoon Robert Maxwell and former Bulgarian Communist leaders (former Bulgarian  Communist Dictator Todor Zhivkov, former Prime Minister Andrey Lukanov, and former Communist Party Politburo member Ognyan Doynov) Maxwell reportedly helped the Communist leaders to launder money, mainly through joint ventures set up in the West with Bulgarian capital. His 'Multigroup'  links to the KGB and mafia, and it's expansion to many countries. Lukanov was also deeply involved in the project codenamed “Neva” (created by the KGB, the Bulgarian  State Security and involving Robert Maxwell). “Neva was designed to be the single largest  programme for the mass-scale theft of US technology”  Robert Maxwell ensured that Mossad could penetrate far into the economic structure of Eastern Europe and make informed judgments never before possible by working under cover of the Neva companies. The trial of the murder of Andrey Lukanov (Three Bulgarians and two Ukrainians convicted).  Iliya Pavlov, President of Maxwell's organized crime facilitating structure call MG Group ("Multi Group") and contributor to HRC election campaign, was a shot dead before testifying. Multigroup was involved in the scheme to loot the country after the breakup of the USSR. The scheme involved the highest  levels of the Communist Party and the KGB/mafia with help from Westerners. Andrei Lukanov was also a representativeof the giant energy Gazprom in Bulgaria through TopEnergy. Robert Maxwell owned a money laundering bank in Bulgaria to help rich and powerful insiders of the Soviet elites,  and their mafia oligarchs to loot the state (estimates of up to $500 billion exited out of the former Soviet Union and only a few billion of foreign investment into the country), moving capital to offshore international banks:  ..some Caribbean Islands (eg. Mikhail Khodorkovsky's and Alexander Konanykhine's bank in Antigua called the European Union Bank, or Pavlo Lazarenko's and Peter Kirichenko's bank account at the European Federal Credit Bank in Antigua) and Pacific (known money laundering centers), and the main banking centres of London and New York.  Robert Maxwell's interest in Bulgaria had started before he was recruited by Mossad. In one of those earlier meetings with Vladimir Kryuchkov in Moscow, Maxwell raised the possibility that Bulgaria might be a country where he could invest his money away from prying eyes in the City of London and Wall Street. "Maxwell was the lead investor of a $250 million fund for investing in Eastern Europe and the USSR, including Bulgaria. The limited partnership was called the Maxwell Central and East European Partnership." Was Robert Maxwell at the heart of the global criminal network? John P O'Neill, FBI executive agent-in-charge in New York thought so. Beginning with his Bulgarian connection he showed how to structure a network that grew into financially powerful criminal corporations whose power would extend to the South American drug cartels, the Tongs and the Triads, the Russian Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. They were all there before. But the way Robert Maxwell set up things up, they would all come together in Multi-Group in its early years. His last contribution was not that he just robbed his pension funds. It was that he was the man who set in motion a true coalition of global criminals.' https://archive.fo/nv9Lc#selection-2975.0-2977.4