Europe does not want Bulgaria even in the “waiting room” for the eurozone and not before the country’s banking system goes through “the purge” of the European Central Bank (ECB)…
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How the Central Bank Forges Stress Tests and Why Europe Does Not Want Bulgarian “Bad Apples” Banks in the Eurozone
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The accounts of the US Embassy in Sofia in FIBANK (also known as First Investment Bank, Fibank or FIB) are closed. The new service bank is DSK. This transpires from…
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EC: Disclosure of Stress Test Documents Would Be Detrimental to Bulgaria
Disclosure of the assessment of the European Commission (EC) of the stress tests of Bulgarian banks would undermine the protection of the financial, monetary and economic policy of Bulgaria. This…
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Bulgarian Central Bank in 2012: “FIB Should Raise Its Capital and Stop Lying”
“To prepare a realistic plan for additional capital support in order to ensure the sustainability of the equity of the Bank.” This is one of the recommendations in the classified…
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Part 2; Money is poured in loans granted to oligarchs and connected companies
BNB Admits Existence of “Lethal” Reports on FIB. They Were Secret.
There are two supervisory reports on First Investment Bank, from 2012 and 2015. BNB admits this fact in a response to questions sent by Bivol. The reports have been prepared…
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Bulgarian Central Bank Is Concealing Reports on Tragic State of Private Lender
The State is an accomplice in the draining of capital. Half of all loans granted by First Investment Bank (FIB) are non-performing or total loss. “There is no bank in…
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Owner of Two Emblematic Bulgarian Companies Proved Destitute
Who is behind the offshore companies, owners of ski facilities in the mountains Vitosha and Pirin? Bivol visited a suburb in Nicosia where their nominal owner Georgios Georgiou lives in…
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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…
