05 January 2010
Boris Nikolov Tsankov
Shooting
Tsankov was going to meet his lawyer in Sofia, accompanied by his two bodyguards, when the gunmen struck, shooting him in the heart.
He died on the spot and his bodyguards were wounded. The gunmen escaped. Tsankov, who had published a book a month earlier about the mafia in Bulgaria, reported receiving death threats following its publication and had requested police protection. He had survived a previous attempt to his life in 2004.
