At one point, some Diamonds belonging to Bulgarin were stolen by a cook onboard the ship.Įvents of Grand Theft Auto IV and The Ballad of Gay Tony Niko joined the merchant navy to escape Bulgarin's influence within Europe, and spent seven months on the Platypus before escaping to Liberty City. Bulgarin blamed Niko for this loss, and sought to hunt him down. He employed Niko Bellic as a people trafficker, with Niko smuggling people into Italy from Eastern Europe, until one run in which the ship sank, in which Niko was forced to abandon it and its cargo in order to swim to safety. At some point, he became friends with Dimitri Rascalov, a fellow criminal who operated out of Liberty City. Some time after, he continued human trafficking across the Adriatic sea, where he also lived in a large mansion on the waterfront. In 1989 he was arrested for receiving an entire ship full of Albanian sex slaves and later deported. As a child, he was in a wrestling academy, where his coach made him take steroids.īulgarin later emigrated to Liberty City and began his criminal life. Ray Bulgarin was born in 1958, and lived with a sister named Galina.
