Tsvetan Vasilev

Bulgaria's Finance Minister, Asen Vassilev, unveiled the government's growth-oriented approach to the 2024 budget. This forward-looking strategy focuses on making substantial investments in the social system, healthcare, and education, signaling an intent to fortify the nation's core infrastructure.

The Bulgarian banker Tzvetan Vassilev has again been declared an internationally wanted man. According to information from the National Radio, a European Arrest Warrant was issued for him last week, and since this week he has been submitted for search by Interpol. The reason is a new investigation against him, which the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office is working on.

The huge cash stocks of companies are likely to fuel corruption in the country. This was commented to the Bulgarian National Radio by the Minister of Finance Asen Vassilev.

According to him, preliminary information indicates that there are such large cash stocks.

The court sitting on the case for siphoning off of more than BGN 2 and a half billion from the Corporate Commercial Bank on 28th of February continues for second day In the Specialised Court. The former banker and majority shareholder of the bank, Tzvetan Vassilev, and other 17 people are defendants in the process, charged as an organised criminal group.

President Rumen Radev will guarantee the security of banker Tsvetan Vasilev if he decides to return to Bulgaria and testify in the KTB case. This assured the head of state in Pomorie, said Nova TV.

Radev explained that by declassifying the two shorthand notes for the bank gave illumination in the scandal and hence it all now depends on the justice system.

The daughter of former banker Tsvetan Vasilev, Radoslava Vasileva, is charged with money laundering. A prosecutor's decree was issued for her detention in the period of 72 hours. This is what Vassilev's wife Antoaneta Vassileva said in an open letter to President Rumen Radev, published on the website of the former head of the bankrupt KTB Bank, reports SEGA. 

Bulgarian prosecutors have indicted an organized crime group of 18 people over the failure of the Corporate Commercial Bank, CCB, in 2014, starting with the bank's majority owner, Tsvetan Vassilev.

The indictment was filed with ihe Special Criminal Court in Sofia on Thursday.

''The Corporate Commercial Bank'' case went to the court. Tzvetan Vassilev and 17 other bankers and financiers will stand on the dock, reported bTV.

Early this morning, 12,000 pages of indictment had been moved from the offices of the Prosecutor's Office to the Special Criminal Court.

Serbia's Justice Ministry told BIRN Belgrade is seeking extradition of 120 person from other countries, while other states seek the extradition of 80 persons from Serbia.

One such case concerns the former Romanian MP and businessman Sebastian Ghita, who is wanted in Romania on several corruption charges.

Serbian workers at a glass company in Paracin, facing bankruptcy due to debts of around 50 million euros, are appealing to the government to help - and perhaps buy the firm.

"We've been informed that a pre-bankruptcy procedure was launched on May 5 … but we have had problems for a long time," Zivojin Matejic, from the union at Srpska Fabrika Stakla/ Serbian Glass factory, told BIRN.