Since June 1990, Batkov has been a managing partner of the Batkov, Stoev, Botev and Co. company of lawyers. He is a member of the College of Barristers, the International Lawyer's League and the Supervising Council of
Mobiltel. Batkov is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Standard News Ltd, publisher of the
Standart newspaper. Batkov was also formerly a legal adviser at the
Bulgarian Council of Ministers. Batkov has been the president of
Levski Sofia since the summer of 1998, becoming the de facto owner as the majority shareholder of the team in March 2004 when he officially replaced
Michael Cherney in that capacity. Batkov stepped down on 24 June 2015, with three businessmen (Ivo Tonev, Aleksandar Angelov and Nikolay Iliev) obtaining his shares in the team. He remains the longest serving president of Levski Sofia in the club's history. Batkov was subsequently fined 5000
Swiss francs and banned from attending the next 2 Levski games in any
UEFA tournaments. In August 2008, some of his remarks in relation to the identity of the
BATE Borisov football team as well as the country of
Belarus attracted criticism among the press and a number of politicians in the former Soviet state. On 17 October 2008, Batkov was awarded the
Order of Stara Planina (1st class) by then
president Georgi Parvanov for his contributions to the preservation of Bulgarian
cultural heritage and the enhancement of the reputation of
Bulgarian sport. He is married to Zdravka. They have two daughters and a son. ==References==