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Other evidence is slowly emerging such as the one in an article of our colleague Miroslav Ivanov. FIB &#8211; &#8220;the worst bad apple bank&#8221; according to secret US cables is the new &#8220;bank of # WHO&#8221;. Former US Ambassador John Beyrle has written the following in a <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cable\/2006\/12\/06SOFIA1652.html\" target=\"_blank\">classified report<\/a>: \u201cFIB is now considered to have one foot in the legitimate retail world ) it is known as one of the most aggressive and &#8220;polished&#8221; banks ) as well as one in the murkier criminal realm. The transfer exposes the reasons why FIB was rescued with public money and taxpayers will pay for this &#8220;rescue&#8221; for which the government is preparing to take out new debt. Therefore, no one will dare to touch the <a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/infamous-bulgarian-architect-is-building-the-scandalous-seraglio-in-rosenets.html?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">seraglio of Dogan in Rosenets<\/a>, while the wannabe-reformers will whimper softly under the strict gaze of Buddha and will not utter a word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The puzzle is coming together. 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Sounds absurd, right? But such a thing is possible in Bulgaria. The huge fines of 100,000 levs that the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) imposed on publisher Economedia and the Vratsa-based\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comments&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comments","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/comments-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_20140627_165012.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_20140627_165012.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_20140627_165012.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_20140627_165012.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27050,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/first-investment-bank-fibank-fib-is-laundering-money.html","url_meta":{"origin":24657,"position":3},"title":"#WHO Is Allowing Repeat CCB Offenses in FIB?","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"21 May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The global credit rating agency FITCH slashed yesterday Bulgarian First Investment Bank\u2019s (FIB) credit rating by as much as three levels. This unprecedented occurrence was preceded by a series of investigations of Bivol in how this bank distributes monstrous amounts of money in the form of bad credits to connected\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Investigations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Investigations","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/investigations-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/peev-ski-buda.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/peev-ski-buda.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/peev-ski-buda.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/peev-ski-buda.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/peev-ski-buda.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/peev-ski-buda.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32687,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/legendary-unemployed-cypriot-is-lurking-once-again-as-owner-of-exploded-train.html","url_meta":{"origin":24657,"position":4},"title":"Legendary Unemployed Cypriot Lurks Once Again\u2026 as Owner of Exploded Train","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"10 December 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"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 by the unemployed Cypriot national Georgios Georgiou. The man has close connections with the owners and majority shareholders in private\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FIBANK&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FIBANK","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/b-files-en\/fibank-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hitrino.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hitrino.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hitrino.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31180,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/who-is-gone-but-left-minimum-280-million-in-debt.html","url_meta":{"origin":24657,"position":5},"title":"#WHO Is Gone, But Left Minimum 280 million in Debt","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"23 June 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Two years passed since the collapse of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), preceded by a conflict between its majority shareholder, banker Tsvetan Vasilev, and lawmaker-investigator-former chief of the National Security Agency (DANS)-media mogul Delyan Peevski. 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