Immediately after Brezhnev’s death, he ordered the money to stay in Switzerland, the number was known only to him and a few other people from his closest circle
What happened to Todor Zhivkov’s $2 billion secret “black days” fund? The adviser of the First – Kostadin Chakarov, who died 5 years ago, spoke last about the bank account in Switzerland.
He often raised this uncomfortable question with the argument that Zhivkov himself had repeatedly asked about the 2 billion BGN, but in reality at that time it was about 2 billion dollars due to the exchange rate in the early 1980s. According to Chakarov, the number of the account in Switzerland was known to him by the First and several other people – his most trusted persons in the Politburo of the BKP.
How money can be traced in the murky years of transition, read here.
