ethical principles derived from the Olympic Charter and the IOC code of ethics and of an extremely serious nature", and recommended his expulsion from IOC. On Thursday 7 July 2005 at the IOC session in Singapore Slavkov was charged with bringing the IOC into disrepute. 82 members voted in favour of expelling him, with only 12 voting against despite Slavkov making a 20-minute plea to the committee. Slavkov was also barred from being chairman of the Bulgarian national Olympic committee, a post he held even after being suspended from the IOC. After public outcry in Bulgaria, Slavkov was replaced as President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee by retired Bulgarian olympic high jumper Stefka Kostadinova, and as President of the Bulgarian Football Union by Borislav Mihaylov, the former captain of the Bulgaria national football team. In 2001 he established a political party named Forward Bulgaria (modeled after Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia) which failed to clear the 4% barrier in order to enter Parliament. On 1 May 2011 Slavkov died in a government hospital following lung complications at age 70, 10 days shy of his 71st birthday. External links Bulgarian Olympic Committee Bulgarian Football union Panorama: Buying The Games 1940 births 2011 deaths Businesspeople from Sofia International Olympic Committee members Bulgarian memoirists