Georgi Iliev
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- For the football (soccer) player, see Georgi Iliev (footballer).
Georgi Andreev Iliev (Bulgarian: Георги Андреев Илиев) (July 22, 1966 – August 25, 2005) was a Bulgarian businessman, best known for his ownership of a top Bulgarian football team, Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
He was shot and killed at a restaurant in Sunny Beach, a resort town on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast near the city of Bourgas, by a suspected sniper. Iliev was alleged to be an organized crime boss, and so his murder was suspected to be part of an ongoing turf war between rival criminal gangs. His brother Vasil Iliev was also shot and killed in 1995 in Sofia.
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- Bulgarian football boss shot dead -- BBC News Online, August 26, 2005.
- Bulgaria's Football Elite Flock to Iliev's Memorial Service -- Sofia News Agency, August 28, 2005 (as syndicated by the British Helsinki Human Rights Group)
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