Bateto ivan slavkov biography
Bateto ivan slavkov biography
Иван Славков - Батето/Ivan Slavkov - Bateto.
He is a Professor of Sports Sciences at Kiev University, used to be the head of Bulgarian television and is a former government minister.
Panorama's revelations about Slavkov's connections with Goran Takac and Slavkov's willingness to discuss how members of the IOC can be "persuaded" to vote for an Olympic candidate city caused a huge outcry in Bulgaria.
Despite being suspended by the IOC he remains President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee and head of the Bulgarian Football Union.
Slavkov is son-in-law of Bulgaria's former communist dictator Todor Zhivkov, infamous for ordering both the shooting of ethnic Turks and the murder of Bulgarian dissident and BBC journalist Georgi Markov with a poison-tipped umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in 1978.
Since the collapse of Communism Slavkov has been accused and subsequently acquitted of several crimes i