The autopsy of the three bodies found in the camper in the area of Okolchitsa Peak in the Vratsa Balkan completely refuted the official version of the Ministry of Interior about what happened there, BulNews revealed.
After the completion of the procedural and investigative actions on February 8, the bodies of Ivaylo Kalushev, Nikolay Zlatkov and Alexander Makulev were transported to the “Hristo Botev“ Hospital in Vratsa. Curiously, the hospital's hearse was not allowed to reach the camper, and Interior Ministry officials carried the dead men about 50 meters away from it.
Thus, considering the still blocked access to the “Petrohan“ hut, it becomes clear that no outsider has seen the two crime scenes since the discovery of the first bodies on February 2. Twenty days later, the police continue to guard the area of the burned property, and the camper itself is taken under armed guard to the police parking lot near the Vratsa village of Kostalevo.
The most impressive fact, which was established during the autopsy, shows that 15-year-old Alexander was beaten, mainly in the head. The numerous scars plus his puffy face clearly showed that someone had tried to squeeze some information out of him.
It has been established indisputably that Alexander was the last to die. The boy was shot in the temple in the back of the camper. This shatters to dust the investigators' claims that Ivaylo Kalushev killed the other two and then committed suicide.
The person sitting in the front seat of the camper, Nikolay Zlatkov, had a huge hole between his eyes. When fired with a Colt Anaconda revolver, as the Ministry of Internal Affairs claims, the projectile should have taken the back of his head and exited. However, this is not the case. It was found in the skull of the shot man and this is even stated in the autopsy documents.
A weapons expert commented to BulNews that in his case it was more likely a ricochet, rather than a direct shot. At the same time, investigators claim that they found all the projectiles in the camper. The autopsy proves that this is not true. One projectile was found in Nikolay's head, and this is not an unimportant fact.
And if we assume in this case that it was an oversight, how will the Ministry of Internal Affairs explain the hole in the ceiling of the camper? What, according to them, pierced the hole? And what was it that they found outside during the second inspection around the camper? The investigation is silent.
There is also a problem with the public statements of the investigators about the suicide of Ivaylo Kalushev. The man was right-handed, and the shot in the mouth with the revolver was fired with his left hand, or at least from that direction. The claims that carbon deposits were found on his right hand are a complete mystery, since he obviously did not hold it at the time of the shooting.
The autopsy revealed that the three died between 24 and 36 hours before the discovery of the camper. It is very likely that the 15-year-old boy died last, as the condition of his body points in that direction. At the insistence of the investigators, samples were taken from the anus of Alexander and Nikolay to determine whether they had had sexual intercourse in the last 10 days.
Many are probably wondering why there are such discrepancies in the stated autopsy results of the three men and in the unofficial data.
Few know that during this process, armed officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stand above the heads of the pathologists, who strictly monitor their every action. Every word that is recorded as a result of the autopsy is scrutinized, and it is not so easy for something to appear there that completely refutes the official version of the investigation.
After all these revelations, the question rightly arises of what happened in the camper before the death of the three men.
The beginning of the discrepancies about the causes of death of the three corpses in the “Petrokhan“ hut and in the Okolchitsa camper, is on February 1. The same day, at 7:12 a.m. Nikolay Zlatkov leaves with an all-terrain jeep towards Sofia. At 10:08 a.m. Ivaylo Kalushev and Alexander Makulev leave with the camper towards Vrachanski Balkan.
What necessitated their urgent departure from the hut towards Okolchitsa, without waiting for their friend? Something had obviously happened, since they agreed with Nikolay Zlatkov to meet on the road and for him to join them. This happened around 11:00 a.m., when he left his jeep on a turnoff by the road and got on with Kalushev and Makulev, since at 11:14 a.m. Nikolay was already driving the camper towards Vratsa.
On February 1 at 12:46 a.m. a camera in the village of Chelopek near Vratsa recorded the passing camper in the direction of Mount Vola. The owner of the video initially claimed that he was driving too slowly and was being driven by a woman, but he most likely got lost in Nikolai's long hair. It is still about 30 minutes to the place where he was found.
And here comes another big gap in the investigators' version. If we assume that the three were dead on Saturday - the day before they were found, what had they been doing in the area for the past few days? When the bodies were discovered, there was no water or food inside the vehicle. How did Ivaylo, Nikolay and Aleksandar survive 6 days in the camper and why did they wait almost a week to ritually commit suicide, and not do it immediately after reaching an area they knew well?
They did not commit suicide because they had no intention of dying at all. Simple logic shows that in order to hurry to go somewhere and even meet a friend on the way, it means that they did not want to be late. The three men definitely had a meeting with an important person on whom their future depended.
This was obviously kept a secret, and that is why Nikolay turned on the Starlink Internet station to confirm that he was at the meeting place. It is possible that the connection was also made through the existing equipment in the camper, since he was an avid radio amateur and was able to make contact with the whole world that way.
There is something in common between the “Petrohan“ hut and the Okolchitsa region. Yes, both places are in the Stara Planina Mountains, but there is something else. Historians know that an old Roman road passed through the Berkovo Balkan, which continued along the ridge of the mountain, and part of it is the place above Vratsa, where the camper parked.
Thousands of years ago, the area was home to one of the Roman mints on the Balkan Peninsula, where gold coins were minted. The rest were in the Kotla Balkan, the Peshter Balkan and near Athens. One of the most famous treasure hunters in Bulgaria, Panayot Panov, spoke about this about 10 years ago.
The man is no longer alive, but during his lifetime he talks about an Italian map stolen by the Nazis and, through unknown means, during the war, which ended up in his father's possession. It marked approximately the places in the country and in Greece where a huge amount of Roman gold was hidden.
In the area above Vratsa, years ago, there was a mine called “Plakalnitsa“, because of which the first metallurgical enterprise in Bulgaria for the extraction of unrefined copper was built in Eliseina in 1905. Locals know that there was also a gold vein in this area, which was lost over the years.
A man from Chelopek contacted BulNews. He claims to have seen the same camper up in the Balkans at least 10 times. Always during the week or in the evening and never on the weekend. Ivaylo Kalushev was one of the famous cavers in the country and one can make a reasonable assumption that the interest in this area was not only for nature lovers' purposes.
No one can confirm, but also deny that it is entirely possible that his group discovered the entrance to the Roman mint and that it cost them their lives. Everyone is impressed that their NGO “National Agency for Control of Protected Areas“ had huge financial resources, and he himself is quite wealthy.
According to initial data, he had 21 properties in Bulgaria, and in Mexico he rented out 7 houses to tourists. Separately, the forest rangers could afford to buy expensive “toys” and weapons that the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not have the strength to acquire.
To justify their apparent well-being, investigators are lighting fuses for their financing by children of parents, but these are insufficient funds and this theory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is more of a smokescreen for society.
The most logical thing is, if we assume that Ivaylo Kalushev's group was not engaged in any successful business, and at the same time is interested in the privatization of “Toplofikatsiya-Sofia“ and PVU, is that they have access to something that makes them rich.
And it is no wonder, precisely with the declared interest in such large-scale deals, that someone realized that there is no way some forest rangers could ask about this without having the opportunity to participate. It should be noted that, excluding little Alexander, the other men are not random and should not be underestimated in any way.
Rather, everyone knew about the meeting in the Balkans, and that's why only three of them went there, while the rest stayed to guard the property. There is no logic in 6 men agreeing to commit suicide for some sectarian reasons and not doing it together.
There are no known rituals in which half of them end their lives, and the other half leave and do it after 6 days.
Rather, the meeting in Okolchitsa turned out to be a trap and did not go according to Kalushev's expectations. Most likely, he and Nikolay Zlatkov were shot first, and little Alexander was beaten to reveal where the entrance to the cave was. The child certainly knew, since it is not excluded that he was the one who was lowered into the hole, since according to the laws of conspiracy, the place is left narrow. Obviously, the boy did not become a traitor, and this cost him his life.
It is quite a real possibility that the non-governmental organization “National Agency for Control of Protected Areas“ is registered precisely so that they can dig in the caves without having problems with the authorities. There is no other known reason for the group to come so persistently to the same area in the Vratsa Balkan, and at a time when there are no unwitting witnesses there.
Perhaps more clarity on what happened in Okolchitsa during these 6 days, between January 1 and 8, will be revealed by the camera traps of the hunting party in the villages of Pavolche and Chelopek. The men had loaded 4-5 devices in the forest where the camper had stopped, and it is no wonder that there are footage there that the investigation does not want to publish.
A separate issue is that as soon as it becomes clear about the camper's movement in the direction of Vola, the local police set up a secret post in the forest before Vola Peak and there should be records of who went up and down during this period.