<table bgcolor="#000022"><tr><td>Mobile phone number 0888 888 888 is suspended after every user assigned to it DIES
<p>Spooked phone bosses have suspended the mobile phone number 0888 888 888 - after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.</p><p>The first owner, Vladimir Grashnov - the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel, which issued the number - died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.</p><p>Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.</p><p>The jinxed number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss Konstantin Dimitrov. <br></p><p>He was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500million drug-smuggling empire.</p><p>Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a beautiful model.</p><p>Russian mafia bosses - jealous of his drug-smuggling operation - were said to have been behind the killing.</p><p>The phone number then passed to crooked businessman Konstantin Dishliev.</p><p>He was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in 2005, after taking over the jinxed line.<br></p><p>Estate agent Dishliev had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination.</p><div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter">
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/26/article-1281327-09C033E1000005DC-367_468x282.jpg" alt="The body of Konstantin Dimitrov, shot in Amsterdam in 2003. He was just one of the unlucky holders of mobile number 0888 888 888" class="blkBorder" width="468" height="282">
<p>The body of Konstantin Dimitrov, shot in Amsterdam in 2003. He was just one of the unlucky holders of mobile number 0888 888 888</p></div>
<p>He died after £130million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.</p><p>Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev's killing and his smuggling ring.</p><p>Now spooked phone bosses are said to have suspended the number, which from an international line is +359 888 888 888, for good. <br></p><p>Callers now get a recorded message saying the phone is 'outside network coverage'.</p><p>A Mobitel spokesman would only say: 'We have no comment to make. We won't discuss individual numbers.'</p>
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<p>Spooked phone bosses have suspended the mobile phone number 0888 888 888 - after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.</p><p>The first owner, Vladimir Grashnov - the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel, which issued the number - died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.</p><p>Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.</p><p>The jinxed number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss Konstantin Dimitrov. <br></p><p>He was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500million drug-smuggling empire.</p><p>Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a beautiful model.</p><p>Russian mafia bosses - jealous of his drug-smuggling operation - were said to have been behind the killing.</p><p>The phone number then passed to crooked businessman Konstantin Dishliev.</p><p>He was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in 2005, after taking over the jinxed line.<br></p><p>Estate agent Dishliev had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination.</p><div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter">
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/26/article-1281327-09C033E1000005DC-367_468x282.jpg" alt="The body of Konstantin Dimitrov, shot in Amsterdam in 2003. He was just one of the unlucky holders of mobile number 0888 888 888" class="blkBorder" width="468" height="282">
<p>The body of Konstantin Dimitrov, shot in Amsterdam in 2003. He was just one of the unlucky holders of mobile number 0888 888 888</p></div>
<p>He died after £130million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.</p><p>Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev's killing and his smuggling ring.</p><p>Now spooked phone bosses are said to have suspended the number, which from an international line is +359 888 888 888, for good. <br></p><p>Callers now get a recorded message saying the phone is 'outside network coverage'.</p><p>A Mobitel spokesman would only say: 'We have no comment to make. We won't discuss individual numbers.'</p>
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