A camera crew of Bulgarian TV Channel 3 has popped-up this morning at the address in the Paris suburb where Bivol’s Editor-in-Chief Atanas Tchobanov lives. The intruders introduced themselves to …
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Dirty Campaign of Controlled Bulgarian Media against Bivol Enters New Phase
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French TV Investigation Implicates Bulgarian TBI Bank in Fraudulent Scheme
The popular in France investigative journalism TV show Capital on M6 TV exposed through witnesses’ accounts a “sting” scheme of which thousands of French people have fallen prey. They have …
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Bulgarian Central Bank Broke Its Silence after 3 Years of Correspondence about Banks ‘Bad Apples’
The new Governor of the Bulgarian central bank (Bulgarian National Bank, BNB) Dimitar Radev responded to the numerous letters, alerts and official inquiries Bivol sent them over the years. Radev …
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Bivol Asks New BNB Governor Dimitar Radev about FIB Draining and other “Bad Apples”
As Bulgarians say: New BNB Governor – new luck. Despite the premonition that nothing will change due to the fact that the old team was kept intact, Bivol reiterated the …
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We publish a letter sent to our editorial office by Investbank as a right of reply, after Bivol’s publication of a letter from the European Commission with information about wrong …
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European Commission: BNB Committed Gaffe with FIB and Investbank Data
The European Commission revealed that the Bulgarian central bank (Bulgarian National Bank, BNB) has published a false report about the state of the banking system during the first quarter of …
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Private Lender FIB Is Complicit in the VAT Schemes of Ivan Tanev AKA The Universal
In the first part of this investigation (see here) Bivol revealed how several million in credit from First Investment Bank (FIB) for the shell company VEILMES Ltd have ended through …
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“Professional” Troll of FIB Exposed Himself with Complaint to YouTube against a Video of Bivol
The manager of the PR firm ORM.BG Kalin Vasilev, specializing in online reputation management, especially that of First Investment Bank (FIB), has filed a complaint to YouTube against a video …
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Full Access to FIB Restructuring Plan Would Prevent EC from Investigating State Aid
Bivol received yet another refusal from the European Commission to disclose the full text of the censored restructuring plan for First Investment Bank (FIB) after the State aid of 1.2 …
