Attention: Ms. Karin A.

Falk
Copy : The Wilson Company
Dallas Texas
USA

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2005

Dear Ms. Falk,

Thank you for coming and visiting me this last Monday October 24th, 2005. It was
unfortunate that the visit was only 25 minutes. Also, I am dreadfully sorry that the Sofia
Prison would not allow you to give me the food you so graciously bought for me and had
to carry here.

Please advise Mr. Wilson that I am working on the additional materials that he asked for,
including the cover for the book “PHARAOH”. I should have both ready by early
November. That is, barring any further technical problems with my computer or new
harassment from some prison official. It is this last issue that has me deeply concerned
and also anxious. Somehow I need to impress these fears on the Bulgarian Minister for
Justice, the Office of the President for the Republic of Bulgaria and Canada Foreign
Affairs Ottawa. For that I need to ask for your help as a fellow Canadian and for Mr.
Wilson’s help as my publisher.

It seems that the Bulgaria’s Minister for Justice is unaware of my written expressions of
these fears, this despite the numerous letters I have sent to his office. This worries me. I
sincerely believe it to be only due to the past interest of the Ministry for Justice that
my current circumstances here at the Sofia Prison have improved. This can also be
said for the Office of the President of Bulgaria, Mr. George Parvanov who has expressed
an interest in the treatment of foreigners in Bulgarian prisons.

However, the Warden of the Sofia prison, Mr. Dimitar Raichev, has been making threats
that he considers these to be “privileges” and he will attempt to interrupt my work on the
book with Mr. Wilson and also obstruct me from pursuing the discrimination and slander
lawsuits filed in Bulgaria. These are against the Ministry for Justice’s Main Directorate
for the Execution of Punishments in Sofia (that’s the equivalent of Canada’s Correction
Services). Warden Raichev has refused all my requests to meet with him and discuss what
it is about me that disturbs him so much.
I cannot offer anything concrete, and so far I am grateful that Warden Raichev is
tolerating me, but only just, and most certainly he is in no way supporting me or the
Ministry for Justice by allowing me to work. But Warden Raichev knows that the
materials I am providing to Mr. Wilson, and collecting from the courts may ultimately
reveal some of the corruption, mistreatment and discrimination I have suffered and have
witnessed at the Sofia Prison since 1998. Such facts are not flattering to the Sofia Prison
and I am afraid that Warden Raichev is only waiting for the smallest excuse to bring to
my work with Mr. Wilson to an abrupt end.

Having said that, I wanted to ask you if during your last 12 days in Bulgaria there was
any way you could personally convey my fears by meeting with a representative from the
Ministry for Justice and Office for the President of the Republic of Bulgaria? Maybe even
ask a Canadian consulate representative to accompany you?

Again I emphasize that no one here at the prison is bothering or interfering with my work
at this moment. It is just that this fear is being exasperated by the refusal of anyone at the
Ministry for Justice to discuss these concerns. It is my hope that you can make a
difference.

Sincere regards,

Michael Kapoustin
The Ministry for Justice
Republic of Bulgaria
Office of the Minister
The Honorable Mr. George Petkanov
No. 1 Slavianski Blvd.
Sofia Bulgaria

Copy: Government of Canada

Ministry for Foreign Affairs
The Honorable Pierre Pettigrew
Minister for Foreign Affairs

Monday, October 31, 2005

Dear Minister Petkanov,

I am a citizen of Canada and visiting Bulgaria to do some photography and research for
the publisher of a book on the life story of Mr. Michael Kapoustin and his Bulgarian
company’s work on a patented HIV/AIDS medicine.

On October 24th 2005, I had the opportunity to visit Mr. Kapoustin at the Sofia Prison for
only 25 minutes. Oddly enough the prison Warden refused to allow me to present gifts of
food to Mr. Kapoustin, and further, I was provided with no reason. During that visit Mr.
Kapoustin expressed his anxiety of being persecuted and harassed by some senior prison
officials who are against his writing this book and angry at him for having filed
discrimination lawsuits against the prison and its staff. His fear was very real, and
although he attempted to appear relaxed his anxiety was completely apparent to me as he
later mailed me the attached letter and asked me to come and see you.

Therefore, I would be grateful for a chance to visit you and express to you, or your
deputy, my serious concerns as a Canadian and those of the U.S. publisher Mr. Wilson
over the safety and well being of Mr. Kapoustin at Sofia Central Prison. This is
particularly relevant since Bulgaria together with the Government of Canada is
championing the human rights of Bulgaria’s citizens in Libya.

Minister Petkanov, it seems Mr. Kapoustin, as a citizen of Canada, needs some friends in
Bulgaria as much as Bulgaria’s citizens need friends in Libya. In researching this book
for Mr. Wilson I learned that the previous Minister for Justice, Mr. Anton Stankov,
communicated to Mr. Wilson that it is Bulgarian public opinion that prevented the
previous Government of Bulgaria from transferring Mr. Kapoustin to a prison in Canada
or recommending him for parole.
Minister Petkanov, this is the same kind of unfair and biased public opinion in Libya that
denies Bulgarian citizens their right to humane and equal treatment in Libya and may
eventually prevent their transfers to Bulgarian prisons. My research has also revealed that
it is only public opinion and the personal enmity of Sofia Central Prison officials that
prevents Mr. Kapoustin from being paroled. Is this not the same type of enmity your
citizens have suffered from Libyan police and prison officials?

Please let us meet so that you may reassure me, and all the citizens of Canada, that you
will do more than just listen but will act to secure a citizen of Canada the same humanity
and equality under law in Bulgaria that you expect the Government of Canada to help
you secure for Bulgarian citizens in Libya.

I await a call for when we can meet, my telephone number until I depart back for Canada
on November 10th is 0885 161014.

Respectfully,

A. Karin Falk
The President for the Republic of Bulgaria
The Honorable George Parvanov
No. 2 Dondukov Street
Sofia Bulgaria

Copy: Government of Canada

Ministry for Foreign Affairs
The Honorable Pierre Pettigrew
Minister for Foreign Affairs

Monday, October 31, 2005

President Parvanov,

I am a citizen of Canada and visiting Bulgaria to do some photography and research for
the publisher of a book on the life story of Mr. Michael Kapoustin and his Bulgarian
company’s work on a patented HIV/AIDS medicine.

On October 24th 2005, I had the opportunity to visit Mr. Kapoustin at the Sofia Prison for
only 25 minutes. Oddly enough the prison Warden refused to allow me to present gifts of
food to Mr. Kapoustin, and further, I was provided with no reason. During that visit Mr.
Kapoustin expressed his anxiety of being persecuted and harassed by some senior prison
officials who are against his writing this book and angry at him for having filed
discrimination lawsuits against the prison and its staff. His fear was very real, and
although he attempted to appear relaxed his anxiety was completely apparent to me as he
later mailed me the attached letter and asked me to come and see you.

Therefore, I would be grateful for a chance to visit you and express to you, or your
deputy, my serious concerns as a Canadian and those of the U.S. publisher Mr. Wilson
over the safety and well being of Mr. Kapoustin at Sofia Central Prison. This is
particularly relevant since Bulgaria together with the Government of Canada is
championing the human rights of Bulgaria’s citizens in Libya.

President Parvanov, it seems Mr. Kapoustin, as a citizen of Canada, needs some friends in
Bulgaria as much as Bulgaria’s citizens need friends in Libya. In researching this book
for Mr. Wilson I learned that the previous Minister for Justice, Mr. Anton Stankov,
communicated to Mr. Wilson that it is Bulgarian public opinion that prevented the
previous Government of Bulgaria from transferring Mr. Kapoustin to a prison in Canada
or recommending him for parole.

Mr. President, this is the same kind of unfair and biased public opinion in Libya that
denies Bulgarian citizens their right to humane and equal treatment in Libya and may
eventually prevent their transfers to Bulgarian prisons. My research has also revealed that
it is only public opinion and the personal enmity of Sofia Central Prison officials that
prevents Mr. Kapoustin from being paroled. Is this not the same type of enmity your
citizens have suffered from Libyan police and prison officials?

Please let us meet so that you may reassure me, and all the citizens of Canada, that you
will do more than just listen but will act to secure a citizen of Canada the same humanity
and equality under law in Bulgaria that you expect the Government of Canada to help
you secure for Bulgarian citizens in Libya.

I await a call for when we can meet, my telephone number until I depart back for Canada
on November 10th is 0885 161014.

Respectfully,

A. Karin Falk
Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Right Honorable Pierre Pettigrew
Government of Canada
Lester B. Pearson Building
Tower B3
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2
Canada

Minister Pettigrew,

I visited not only Michael Kapoustin in Bulgaria, but also the Bulgarian Ministry for
Justice and Office of the President.

The enclosed letters speak to my concern as a citizen of Canada, not only for Michael and
his family but also the other two Canadians imprisoned in Bulgaria and who I did not get
to meet. Michael and his family are fighting for his return to Canada and legal right to
parole under Bulgarian law. And I believe that you and Canada have a duty to help this
family to protect Michael from prison officials who would harass and persecute him in
the mean time. These are the same prison officials who I understand lied to Canadian
consul Marie Kenny when telling her a court refused Michael’s parole.

As a Canadian I consider that the Government of Canada has a debt to Michael and his
family. You of course know it was the R.C.M.P. who in 1995 formally requested the
Bulgarian government to charge, arrest, extradite and question Michael for information
on an unrelated criminal investigation in Canada? All the documents I have read point to
the RCMP having caused the Bulgarian’s imprison Michael. And I believe the Bulgarian
press reports that Michael was beaten in order to provide information to the RCMP.

Few people in Canada know of the 10 years of the suffering that Michael and his family
have unjustly endured because of a false criminal accusation made by Canada’s RCMP.
That Mr. Pettigrew is about to change, and in a short time more citizens of Canada will
learn of this injustice committed in Canada and against a Canadian. How history treats
you in this mess really depends on how much you try to help Michael’s family or like you
predecessor choose to ignore it.

Please have some compassion towards those ordinary citizens of Canada caught up in
those extraordinary circumstances, get involved personally in this case!
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
A. Karin Falk
Alex, the letter to Pettigrew is an IDEA, I don’t mean to put words into your mouth but I
actually want to try and buy some space in a cheap Ottawa paper [some daily or weekly
rag that has small circulation but gets to the folks on Parliament Hill – there has to be
something] and have you publish this letter, what do you think? The published OPEN
LETTER would need to have some changes made, obviously, but hey, why not. If you
don’t want your name attached to it publicly then we could put my Dad’s. Should have a
simple Webb site setup as we discussed and this of course before publishing the letter to
Pettigrew and you and I make it more dynamic, you know mentioning Libya etc..

Open to dialogue.

Alex I have been trying to impress on my family the dynamic affect an OPEN LETTER
has on the political psyche = public complaints worry politicians because there is always
some else who is only looking for an excuse to attack them – and get attention in the
process. It seems that this is flying right over the top of their heads, not surprise and I
understand. My thinking has allowed my to always make big money and it has also
gotten me into prison – go figure, fuck I’d have gotten less time if I were a “drug baron”.
Oh well, shit happens.

Anyway think about. Sorry I woke you, just wanted to hear that voice!