he has a number of stakes in businesses, particularly in the media. according to bulgarian national television, "in 2015, he officially acquired shares in balkan media group, which includes the newspapers “telegraph”, “minitor”, “politika”, "meridian match” and others. he has shares in technomarket and in a factory for cigarette packaging. he declared he had stakes in 4 foreign companies. he was a minority shareholder in bulgartabak, from where he withdrew at the beginning of 2016."