"On February 2, three men were found dead next to a partially burned-out lodge near the Petrohan Pass close to the Serbian border in western Bulgaria. The owner of the lodge, Ivaylo Kalushev, together with a 22-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, were missing. All of them lived in the lodge and were part of the National Protected Areas Control Agency (NACPT), which sounds like an official Bulgarian agency but was, in fact, an NGO."
"As news of the discovery broke, acting Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov spoke to the media, portraying the NGO's activities as "unholy." When a journalist suggested that what Sarafov was saying sounded like a "sectarian network involved in pedophilia," the chief prosecutor replied: "you understood that correctly"."
"Six days later, on February 8, this speculation went into overdrive when the three missing people were found dead in a campervan at Okoltchica Peak, about 80 km (50 miles) from the first crime scene. The investigators' main hypothesis was that they were looking at four suicides and two murders."
Three men were initially discovered dead beside a partially burned lodge near Petrohan Pass; the lodge owner Ivaylo Kalushev, a 22-year-old and a 15-year-old were missing. All three belonged to the National Protected Areas Control Agency (NACPT), an NGO. Acting Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov publicly described the NGO's activities as "unholy" and affirmed a journalist's suggestion that it resembled a "sectarian network involved in pedophilia." Six days later the three missing men were located dead in a campervan at Okoltchica Peak, about 80 km from the first scene. Investigators posited a scenario of four suicides and two murders, intensifying speculation focused on Ivaylo Kalushev.
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