FORMER EUROPEAN CHAMPION MURDERED: He was also a member of the European Parliament, with a financial dispute believed to be the motive!

Bulgarian businessman, former member of parliament and former European taekwondo champion Slavi Binev was killed this morning in Sofia, and three suspects have been detained, Bulgarian police announced.

Police said Binev was murdered at his home in the Pavlovo district of Sofia. Officers received a report of the incident at around 10:20 a.m. local time, Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik reported.

Bulgarian media reported that Binev was shot and that three suspects were detained on a highway while armed. Dnevnik writes that the suspects knew the victim and that a financial dispute likely existed between them. This is the second murder of a businessman in Bulgaria in the past month.

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Two firearms were found in the car in which the three men were detained in connection with the murder of Slavi Binev. Police apprehended them near the Trajan’s Gate tunnel on the Trakia Highway. All three have clean criminal records. Two Turkish nationals are permanent residents of Bulgaria.

Two of the detained men have Turkish names, while the third is Bulgarian. Authorities are working to establish the motive for the murder. Initial information suggests it was a personal dispute, 24chasa.bg reports.

Binev, 60, was a Bulgarian businessman, former member of the European Parliament and former president of the Bulgarian Taekwondo Federation.

In 1992, Binev won the European taekwondo title at the Open European Championships held in Celje, Slovenia.