Delyan Peevski
Delyan Peevski | |
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Делян Пеевски | |
Peevski in 2025 | |
| Leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms | |
| Assumed office 24 February 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Mustafa Karadayi |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 3 December 2021 | |
| Constituency | 1st MMC - Blagoevgrad |
| In office 14 July 2009 – 26 March 2021 | |
| Constituency | See list
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Delyan Slavchev Peevski 27 July 1980 |
| Party | DPS (since 2009) |
| Other political affiliations | NDSV (2001–2009) |
| Domestic partner | Tsvetelina Yaneva |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | South-West University |
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Delyan Slavchev Peevski (Bulgarian: Делян Славчев Пеевски, born 27 July 1980) is a Bulgarian politician and an oligarch, who currently serves as the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms. He is currently sanctioned by both the UK and the United States for corruption, bribery and embezzlement. He is also a former media mogul and has served as Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria since 2009. A member of the DPS party, which he currently leads, Peevski was elected as the director of the State Agency for National Security in 2013, which triggered long lasting national protests that led to his eventual resignation.
In June 2021 the United States Department of the Treasury designated Peevski, the public official Ilko Zhelyazkov and the Bulgarian oligarch Vasil Bozhkov, along with 64 entities owned and controlled by Bozhkov and Peevski, for their roles in public corruption, pursuant to Executive Order 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. Simultaneously, UK also sanctioned several high-profile Bulgarian figures, including Peevski, under the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations from 2021.
According to Radio Free Europe "Peevski is a notorious embodiment of the collusion between media, politicians, and oligarchs".