Thane,

I sincerely admire how you journalists can write stuff and only have to review it once or twice for
errors. Every time I read this file I find a stupid mistake like a typo or misused word. Very frustrating!
So please accept my apology for sending this again. It may not matter to you but I have a conscience
that requires me to at least try to get it right. Again, what I corrected is marked in red. So thankfully you
do not need to read the whole thing again. I promise not to read it again until I find someone to write a
book with me, so you don't have to worry about another revision this is the last!

The attached "Unmarked Final.doc" has all the red line and strike out removed. It is probably the
easiest to read.

I have written below a few questions, requests and a comment or two if you can help.

The Questions:

1. Did my Dad provide you copies of the actual lawsuits in BC and the USA?
2. Did you receive from Marianna the scan of the July 1995 RCMP request to the Bulgarian
authorities?
3. Would you like to address some questions to the Bulgarian lawyer who defended me
here? His name is Anatol Lukanov and the questions can go through Marianna who will
translate them and his answers.
4. Can you help me find a contact to Commissioner Shirley Heafey for the Commission for
Public Complaints against the RCMP? She is investigating the Haher Arar complaint. My
reason is that I provided service on the RCMP officer I sued in BC. The RCMP never filed
either an appearance or defence. I though she would be interested in my case and particularly
the official letter from the RCMP requesting Bulgarian authorities prosecute me "on whatever
charges can be laid" in order to aid another investigation.
5. There is an affidavit filed by an alleged Bulgarian "victim" in the Canadian lawsuit.
Would you care for a transcript? Please bear in mind that one of the law suits is a class
action filed by the companies, me and several Bulgarian "victims" against the Bulgarian state.
The affidavit would give you some insight into a Bulgarian citizen's perspective of the events
and who is to blame. From this I think you can learn that not everything said about me is that
what was and continues to be represented by Bulgarian and even Canadian officials.
6. Are you getting the rights facts about the Bulgarian conviction and my alleged crime in
Bulgaria? Thane, this part I write as a "victim" of a terrible injustice committed against my
family and me. I write as if I am writing a friend in the hope to explain something important. In
the hope I can make someone understand that I am not the monster or public menace that
Bulgarian officials make me out to be. I guess to a very large degree I want to be believed, not
because "I said so" but because I have managed to prove a large part of what I say is true.
This is of deep concern to me because I am exhausted with the years of Bulgarian authorities
and others portraying me as having defrauded Bulgarian citizens or of any other type of fraud!
I have been found INNOCENT OF ALL FRAUD ACCUSATIONS; there are no "Bulgarians or
elderly pensioners" who are the victims of a fraud or any other form of misrepresentation on
my part or that of the company I operated in Bulgaria. I and the company have been cleared of
these accusations by a criminal court in Bulgaria. Any and all transactions of the Company
with Bulgarian citizens have been determined as lawful by Bulgarian courts. My alleged crime
is solely the allegation of misappropriating, albeit lawfully, of money lawfully belonging to my
company. I always have maintained and it is not disputed that this money did not come
solely from Bulgarian citizens but was money lawfully acquired through commercial
activities of the company. I never bothered to explain to you the company, its activities,
 property. Etc... Simply because I did not believe that such facts addressed the substance of
the story you are pursuing i.e. What Canadian in prisons abroad have to and have suffered at
the hands of foreign police and in foreign prisons and what Canada is or is not doing but
should be doing. The company's story is really complex, we had over 200 Bulgarian
employees, two new micro oil refining facilities being built in Bulgaria, agreements with
Seagram's Canada, NovoPharm Canada and other multinational companies as well as the
Bulgarian and Georgian governments. The company had begun clinical trials of a patented
new HIV/AIDS therapeutic that was being conducted in the United States and Bulgaria. This
potential new drug was the brainchild of Bulgarian scientists and there were those in the
Bulgarian government who were of the opinion I had stolen Bulgarian intellectual property and
was profiting from it instead of them. Etc., etc... The same is true for the two refineries.

Thane, I know you will have to write some particulars about the crime for which I am serving a
sentence here. Then please refer to that crime for which I am convicted i.e. misappropriating corporate
funds a private company with 2 shares holders. That company has no defrauded creditors or
investors since it has only two shareholders. There are no bank loans, there has never been state
participation and to top it off I owned and own 75% of all its outstanding share capital, and controlled
the other 25%.

Look, I know it is probably really hard to get your head around this contradiction of logic. But the fact
remains that when and if there is discussion of my "crime" then there can be no reference to "fraud"
because I was cleared of any such allegation. Please do not be duped into printing that I was
convicted for defrauding thousands of Bulgarian citizens. I have proven to a court of law that this is not
true. For you to accept any such explanations from anyone would be only to continue the original
slanders and libels made by the RCMP in 1995 and reproduced and publicly embellished by Bulgarian
officials to incite animosity and hatred against me. Such charges and accusation have caused great
pain and grieve to my family and me and so forms the very foundation of my lawsuit in BC against the
Bulgarian State, its officials and the RCMP officer responsible for those lies.

I am hated, ridiculed and despised solely because of these repeated lies and was grateful when in
2002 the Bulgarian Appeal court found me innocent of fraud. Of course being found innocent by a
court of law does not automatically act to cleanse your public image and all the libels fixed in the
minds of millions of Bulgarian citizens who for 8 years read and heard nothing about my case except
the lies printed about me. Since my acquittals I have been trying to rehabilitate this public image but it
is made nearly impossible by those very Bulgarian officials responsible for the slanders and libels.

Sorry to be so sensitive about this, but you will probably understand. I really don't expect miracles. But
the question is and remains not my quilt or innocence, there is a sentence and motives of a court that
describe my actions and finds them to be criminal. That court ruled I did not defraud anyone. And that
leaves only the specific act for which I was convicted; 6 wire transfer to the bank accounts of a non-
Bulgarian company. The Bulgarian state was not interested in how that money was used and refused
to conduct a forensic audit. SO, yes, I did on behalf of my company wire money abroad, many times,
and if that is the crime then I am guilty. But I did not lie or cheat anyone out of anything, or falsify
anything or misrepresent the reasons for the wires. That' is true not because I say so but because a
court of law found it to be so. And the question is and must be does that kind of crime deserve being
more harshly punished than say a murder, kidnapper, drug trafficker or a corrupt Bulgarian official and
also to abandoned to another country's will and inhumanity by the Canadian government?

Thane, these are complex questions. But I know one thing, taking someone's freedom from him is
punishment enough. But does our Canadian sense of what is right allow punishment to include the
dehumanization of another human being? The destruction of their families? I don't think so, and
somebody needs to stand-up and scream really loud to put an end any such practices. Whether it’s
Bulgarians in a Canadian prison or Canadians in a Bulgarian prison no one government has the right
to do more than the law or international justice allows.

Each day alone in solitary and each time I got hit with a billy club I said to myself "I will not give up"
and "I will survive if for no reason but only so I can someday expose all this". Someday I will explain to
my son why his dad was not there and someday I will make those Bulgarian and Canadian officials
responsible for those lies eat the very words that lead millions of people to consider me less than
human. No matter how long it takes.

Sadly someday I may have to kneel in front of the grave of my mother and tell her I am sorry for not
getting home sooner. For not being smarter and allowing myself to fall victim to the same kind of men
who had 50 years earlier had stolen all her families property and put my grandfather in prison only
because he was not "politically correct" when resisting the revolution in Russia some 30 years earlier.
My Canadian Story is not the only story of several generations of one family falling victim to the same
political corruption and public lies.

Thane, how naive we are when in Canada, so safe in our homes and new world. So separated from
the harsher realities that still affect most of humanity. It is so easy to believe liars when they are the
repetitive of a State rather than to accept that their prisoners are telling the truth.

As Gar Pardy once said to me, you are alone and the only one applauding in an empty auditorium. No
one is listening so why not just stop? Maybe there will be an audience to here my lonely applause if
and when you are published. And depending on what you decide to write then maybe other Canadian
families will join me and together we can be heard.

All the best,

Mike

PS. Today 21.11.03 I received a visit from a Canadian embassy consular official. I advised her of my
concerns that Bulgarian officials might attempt to subject me to some form of punishment for having
started to share what has and is happening here. In particular interfering with pursing my civil and
human rights complaints in Canada, the USA and Strasbourg. Apparently the Bulgarian government is
not prepared to transfer me so I have decided to once more begin pursing those claims. The last time I
did this; the Bulgarian prison officials seized all my documents and electronic data and denied me
access to the physical facilities I need to continue the claims. Then I was threatened with isolation and
constant harassment by the guards. Eventually, after a few weeks they let up. I asked consular
officials to be aware of a repeat of those events.

I am telling you because, if and when you publish, things are probably going to get a little hair razing
for me. It won't hurt to know that you will be there with a follow up "What happens to Canadian's who
complaint and go public".

1. The coloured material was not sent.

2. The question to Rob Stewart "why should he be released?" I got a message from Rob that left
me a little confused. If I understood correctly, one of the apparent questions to Rob was
why, with everything the RCMP said, I should be "released". If I got it wrong please accept my
apology. However, if I am right, then please permit me to add the following.

First and most significantly everything officials of the RCMP have said or written about me is
untrue, and has been proven to be untrue. It is the RCMP who should explain to you how they
can make such conclusions in writing and in public against citizens of Canada when their are
no formal charges brought or other facts to support their statements. In Canada, unlike
Bulgaria, our Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the presumption of innocence and
is supposed to protect us from wrongful or untrue accusation. It is sad and unlawful when
Canadian police have so much freedom as to not be restricted in what unproven suppositions
individual officers can presume to make public and ultimately with impunity ruin the lives
of Canadians.

Can you sincerely believe that Mr. Sampson would be considered as "an innocent victim" if
Saudi Arabia had executed him? Remember that Mr. Sampson like me is alleged to have
received a "fair trial" by "impartial judges" according Saudi law and was convicted and
sentenced according due process and a court of law. He even "confessed" and only retracted
the confession much later. He was not acquitted, but his sentence and that of the others
commuted. Had he died, would you have wondered if he was guilty or accepted that he had
been railroaded? If he was in still in Saudi custody why should he be released or transferred to
Canada? I will tell you why. One reason, and one reason only; he is a Canadian and guilty or
innocent he deserves to be near his family while paying his debt to society and also
attempting to disprove the charges against him.

Or is it just easier to believe a Canadian incapable of an alleged murder or terrorist act and
easier to accept a Canadian committing some lesser and more likely crime? It easier to
believe such allegations than those of alleged terrorism. But then, how would one judge the
rights of the Canadian couple in Brazil who acted together with a terrorist group to kidnap a
Brazilian businessman. The couple first insisted they were innocent and then confessed. What
can we believe there? Yet Lloyd Acworth traveled to Brazil to secure their transfer to a
Canadian prison. Does a Canadian have to be accused of some terrible act of murder or
kidnapping to get the intervention of Canada's Foreign Affairs minister?

These facts and these stories are very distressing as I continue to have to face down
persistent questions of quilt or innocence and morality into my 8th year in a Bulgaria prison. I
am innocent, but I no longer care if anyone believes me. I know those who lived and worked
with me know I am innocent.

But what I do care about is that I am a human being, a Canadian, a father, a husband and son
and my family and I known we should be receiving a lot more help from our Government than
we are.

As for the RCMP, well the Canadian police, like the Saudi and Bulgarian police
can also fabric stories to make their criminal theories more plausible and
cases more acceptable to the press, the prosecutors and the courts. It
happens. Yes, less often in Canada, but it does happen. And occasionally an
investigative journalist, an attorney and someday a judge in Canada may be
confronted by the difficult task to having to accept as fact that Canadian police
can also with premeditation and malice act to bring a malicious prosecution of
another Canadian citizen in another country where they know no one will hold
them to account.

Second, and most important. Please keep do not forget the sole objective of my family or I is
not to see me "released" or to protest my innocence. We have exhausted ourselves and leave
it up to time and the slow processes of the civil and international courts to do that. All we want
is two things and two things only. That Canada secure my transfer to a Canadian prison as
promised to Canada and me, and protects me, like any other Canadian citizen, who has the
misfortune to find himself in similar circumstances.

I, and frankly I doubt anyone in my current circumstances, is interested in rehabilitating him or

herself through the media. Maybe, earlier on, in the first few years, there may have been merit
to such an idea. Now, exhausted after so many years all anyone can want to do including me
is yell mea culpa! mea culpa! Enough is enough and do what reasonable men have always
done; find a way to go on with life.

The call for help to the Government of Canada is due to the fact that there are unreasonable
men whose only desire and purpose is to continue tormenting other men until they can be
broken. In a reasonable and just society and under reasonable circumstances I would have no
reason to raise my voice in a cry to the Canadian people for help. But such is not the case,
and unlike Sampson I am not free but am still under the control of the very people who can
cause me more harm.

It is one thing to be free and face those who once did you harm. It is a wholly different
experience to turn and fight them when you are within their grasp.
 Please reflect on what I have said. If the RCMP is still spitting on me by accusing me of I do
not know what, then they should confront me and stop hiding in the shadows with their
accusation as has been done for more than 8 years. I have a right to know what accusations
they have, if any, and to answer those accusations. Is it Canadian justice to be publicly
accused but not allowed to confront your accuser?

I am very tire Thane, and each day I keep trying to find a way simply to put an end to this and
return to Canada in any way shape or form. But no one will let me because for some reason
there appears to exist in someone's twisted mind a desire to keep this whole think alive as
long as I am alive. It is very disheartening. My fears have been always for my family, as for me
the worst that can happen has already happened. It is for them, and always has been for them
that I feel tormented. Death is sometimes to be considered a welcome release. If not for my
family I would probably have allowed it to happen long ago.

Sincerely
Mike