Oil-for-food defendants led quiet lives

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David Chalmers, 51, was a quiet man who kept a low profile, people who knew him said. Calls to people in the industry elicited little information about him or his company, Bay Oil (USA) Inc. Neither his company nor his family could be reached for comment.

He apparently made plenty of money, however. Property records indicate he owns a $2 million parcel in the heart of Houston's richest neighborhood, River Oaks, but his homestead is several blocks away, on the edge of the neighborhood, and is listed at $764,000

Information was even sketchier about Ludmil Dionissiev, 58, a Bulgarian who was a permanent legal resident of the United States. Property records listed his residence in an upscale neighborhood west of River Oaks as being worth $776,000. Records in the Texas secretary of state's office listed Mr. Dionissiev as president of a Bulcom USA LLC, with offices in the same downtown suite as Bay Oil.


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Earlier this year, the Houston Chronicle reported that Mr. Chalmers teamed up with higher-profile oilman Oscar Wyatt in the purchase of a small refinery in Lake Charles, La., in February.