Vasilev

A collection of twenty artworks at the Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) seized by Bulgaria's prosecuting authority on Wednesday afternoon were a present to the bank's majority owner Tsvetan Vasilev, his lawyer says.

Tsvetan Vasilev announced in an exclusive interview for Novinite news agency that he was blackmailed to give away part of Vivacom in March.

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Tsvetan Vasilev ... courted and reviled, awarded and stigmatized, promoted and humiliated ... In 2014, he was undoubtedly the most mentioned person in the Bulgarian media, in private and in public interviews, in courtrooms and in banking circles. Without doubt 2014 was also his most important and most controversial year.

Bulgaria is facing a decision about what to do with pipes of South Stream left useless after the project was abandoned, the BBC reveals in a special report from the country's "maritime capital" Varna.

Tzvetan Vasilev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and majority shareholder in Corporate Commercial Bank AD, has argued that the bank has fallen victim to a disgraceful smear campaign organized by the political and economic circles around liberal party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS).

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CNN anchor Ralitsa Vassileva, known as the most successful Bulgarian journalist on an international level, is leaving the news channel.

She has not publicly commented on the reason, but her Twitter posts suggest Sunday was her "last day on air".

Bulgaria has now an opportunity to call to account those responsible for the developments at Corpbank, with "prosecutions and jail sentences where appropriate", an article on Forbes magazine's website reads.

Antoaneta Vasileva, wife of Tsvetan Vasilev - majority owner of troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) was questioned in the Sofia Investigation Service in connection to a money laundering investigation, reports Dnevnik.bg.

She was summoned as a witness in the case investigating the purchase of a CHF 20 M house at the shore of the Geneva lake by herself and her husband.

Evgeni Vasilev, Chief of Police in Bulgaria's town of Smolyan has been removed from office, Darik news website reports.

Disciplinary proceeding has been opened against Vasilev, and there is an ongoing inspection conducted in the District Police Directorate, deputy caretaker minister and former chief of police in Smolyan Kiril Hadzhihristev confirmed.

Bulgaria's central bank is resorting to "absurd" excuses to avoid carrying out its legal duties about Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank or KTB), its owner has said.

In a statement on his website, Tsvetan Vasilev also points out the bank is actually serving the interest of a coalition called "PPP", but stops short of revealing what stands for the abbreviation.