The Mobster Who Knew Too Much: Death of a Bulgarian Crime Boss

Krasmir Kamenov was found shot dead along with his wife and two others in their home in a suburb of Cape Town in 2023. The killings remain unsolved.

by Tony Wesolowsky

He was one of Bulgaria’s most notorious mafia kingpins, who rose through the ranks in the chaotic 1990s, acquiring along the way an empire of businesses — some legitimate, many not — from fruit markets, parking lots, to a stake in a business at a key border crossing serving as a gateway to the European Union.