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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EC: Disclosure of Stress Test Documents Would Be Detrimental to Bulgaria
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Legendary Unemployed Cypriot Lurks Once Again… as Owner of Exploded Train
The company “Bulmarket DM” Ltd., whose cargo train exploded Saturday morning in the Bulgarian village of Hitrino, inflicting huge damage and causing numerous fatalities and injuries, is owned on paper …
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Two years after Bivol’s alert:
Prosecution Confirms Central Bank Report on Private Lender Draining and… Goes after Judge
Nearly two years after Bivol’s publications on the draining of First Investment Bank (FIB ) by connected parties, Bulgarian prosecutors issued a decree confirming the facts, but still refusing to …
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Investigative reporters from three countries expose grand robbery affair
Stolen Millions from Romania Have Returned to Bulgaria
An offshore bank with a Hungarian owner has helped to launder the millions of euro stolen from Romania. This is the reason why accounts of Bulgarian private lender FIB were …
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Turning Point in Case of Theft of EUR 22 Million from Romania with Complicity of Bulgarian Bank
The Romanian Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA) has frozen accounts of the Bulgarian private lender First Investment Bank (FIB) in the amount of 44 million levs. This …
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Ivan Tanev: Mila Georgieva and First Investment Bank Are behind Theft of 20 Million Euro in Romania
First Investment Bank (FIB) stood behind one of my business competitors and faked my signature to set me up in the “Universal” case; he is short, with a big nose …
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Bulgarian Prime Minister: I Have Never Been in Touch with People from FIB and for Any Reason
Has the Bulgarian Prime Minister ever been in touch representatives of First Investment Bank (FIB) in connection the “finishing” of Vladimira Yaneva? Bivol asked that question to Sevdalina Arnaoudova, press …
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Judge diverts financial resources to Prime Minister
Bulgarian Bankers Collect Funds for Judge’s Salvation
People from private lender First Investment Bank (FIB) were very worried and have offered to raise money for a fund to save the former President of the Sofia City Court …
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In 2012, Bulgarian central bank found:
Huge Hole in Private Lender FIB, Forged Exposures and Fictitious Profits
The liquidity and operational risks, the ability to generate profits and the capital adequacy of FIB are discussed in the last part of the classified report of Bulgarian National Bank …
