Bulgaria – The first owner Vladimir Grashnov – the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel which issued the number – died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.
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Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.
The number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss, Konstantin Dimitrov, who was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500 million drug smuggling empire.
Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out.
Russian mafia bosses – jealous of his drug smuggling operation – were said to have been behind the killing.
The phone number then passed to Konstantin Dishliev, a crooked businessman, who was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia after taking over the jinxed line.
Dishliev, an estate agent, had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination in 2005.
He died after £130 million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.
Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev’s killing and his smuggling ring.
Now phone bosses are said to have suspended the number for good. Callers now get a recorded message saying the phone is “outside network coverage.”
A Mobitel spokesman would only say: “We have no comment to make. We won’t discuss individual numbers.”
why don’t they think it might be connected to the fact that 2 of the three, were shady characters, and were killed because they were dealing with other criminals
All of the individuals that this phone number belonged to, did have a higher probability to die, due to their “occupations”. I haven’t done research on the former CEO, however, I wouldn’t say it’s unlikely that he was also involved with not clean & proper elements of society.
Just give the # to a few more druggies & the streak will continue…
Pass that # on to Ahmanigad
dwek is next on line
this number belongs to the malach hamoves and he’ll make sure that the line is free.
how pathetic!!!!!
Mister Dishliev? Azrael on line two.
Typical….Let’s blame their deaths on the phone number instead of on the fact that they were all corrupt.
That’s like crying anti-semitism every time a Jew is convicted of a crime. Hello, look at the behavior…
+359-888-888-888
When your number is up, it’s up!
how about continuing this wonderful chain….
give it to terrorist or mafia leaders and let it work its “magic”
or we can take a completly different route and give it to some people who work in the white house…