Vasil Iliev Security, or VIS, is a security

Security

Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of protection...

 and insurance

Insurance

In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...

 company in Bulgaria thought to be a front for a criminal organisation dealing in extortion

Extortion

Extortion is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime...

, car theft, drug trafficking and more. Set up in the early 1990s by Vasil Iliev

Vasil Iliev

Vasil Iliev was a Bulgarian mobster, businessman and wrestler.-Background:Vasil Iliev was born in 1965 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria...

. The company was declared illegal in 1994 but continued operating under the new name of VIS-2.

Vasil Iliev

Vasil Iliev

Vasil Iliev was a Bulgarian mobster, businessman and wrestler.-Background:Vasil Iliev was born in 1965 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria...

 was assassinated on 25 April 1995. The new boss of the company became his brother Georgi Iliev

Georgi Iliev

Georgi Andreev Iliev was a Bulgarian businessman, best known for his ownership of a top Bulgarian football team, Lokomotiv Plovdiv....

, who was himself assassinated on 26 August 2005.