Sofia - Another prominent businessman was killed in crime- plagued Bulgaria in an apparent professional hit, local media reported Monday.

Borislav Georgiev, 41, was the chief executive of a major company, the Atomenergoremont, which maintains the reactors in Bulgaria's nuclear power plant Kosloduy. He was killed in his apartment building in Sofia Sunday evening with two shots to the head.

Apparently nobody witnessed the murder. Police, alerted when residents spotted Georgiev's body, said a burned car was found not far from the scene of the killing.

Professional killers in the Balkans often use stolen cars as getaway vehicles, which they torch to destroy all traces linking them to their crimes.

Dozens of people including businessmen, public officials, as well as common thugs have been killed in Bulgaria in recent years.

Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007 despite shortcomings in its combat with powerful organized crime, which earns many millions of dollars each year just from the smuggling of narcotics from the East to Europe.
(dpa)