Георги Найденов и Тексим- Имекстраком
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Texim was a Bulgarian state-owned foreign trade company which was operational between 1960 and 1969, when the country was governed by the Communist Party. Texim's business was to smuggle weapons. It was linked to a Liechtenstein-registered company called Imextracom, which was originally intended to launder money earned by smuggling Bulgarian weapons to the Algerian National Liberation Front. After the Algerian War, Imextracom continued to perform similar transactions which were part of the so-called "hidden transit". The Texim-Imextracom partnership manipulated market restrictions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It was headed by Georgi Naidenov, an intelligence officer enjoying a freedom of action that was unusual in the centrally planned economy of communist Bulgaria. Naidenov epitomized the nation's economic upturn in the 1960s, but he also endangered the communist regime. After Texim was shut down in 1969, he faced two court trials.
