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Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Yambol, Stara Zagora and Ruse regions, Bulgaria · 2020

Bulgaria: self-styled clairvoyant-healer convicted of defrauding thirteen clients under fear of curses

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled clairvoyant, healer, folk-healer, 'sensory mediation operator' and 'phenomenologist'

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The cited record identifies the perpetrator's claimed clairvoyant and healing power over affliction and curses as the material spiritual pretext connected to the documented harm: victims paid money and surrendered valuables because they believed he held real occult power over their health, family and fate.

  • Curse or witchcraft threat
  • Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. Date in cited record · criminal conviction and sentence

    Yambol District Court, Bulgaria. Zlatko D. was convicted of defrauding thirteen people across the Yambol, Stara Zagora and Ruse regions by posing as a clairvoyant, healer and 'phenomenologist' who could cure illness, break curses and solve family problems in exchange for money and valuables, causing losses exceeding 27,500 BGN; sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Reported as final and appeal-confirmed in press dated August 8, 2020.

Appellate history

  1. Yambol District Court's sentence was upheld on appeal and is final; press reporting confirms the appellate outcome but does not give an exact appellate decision date.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claimed occult power to break curses and cure illness
  • advertising in pensioner and health-focused press targeting elderly and ill clients
  • fear of magical affliction used to extract money and valuables

Primary record

Sources

contemporaneous court reporting verdict report bgonair.bg, 'Осъдиха на 3 години мъж, представял се за ясновидец и лечител' (court-reporting).

Bulgarian press report of the final, appeal-confirmed conviction, victim count, methods, dates and financial loss.

contemporaneous court reporting verdict report Mediapool.bg, 'Три години затвор за мним ясновидец.'

Independent Bulgarian outlet's corroborating report of the same sentence and case facts.

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