18 PEOPLE WILL BE CHARGED IN THE CASE OF THE CORPBANK SIPHONING OFF

The investigation in the siphoning off of Bulgaria’s fourth largest lender Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) has been completed, the Prosecutor’s Office said on 22nd of February.

18 people will face court trial as an organized criminal group. According to the Prosecution, former banker and majority shareholder of Corporate Commercial Bank Tzvetan Vassilev is allegedly the leader of the criminal group. The trial against him will proceed in abstentia. He is in Serbia and there is no final decision on his extradition.

There are more than 1000 volumes of materials on the case, including 5000 pages of allegations. More than 400 witnesses have been interviewed.

It became clear on 22nd of February, that the trustees of CCB have filed cases under the summary proceedings against debtors of the bank to the amount of 2,700,000 BGN, challenged offsets worth nearly half a million BGN, and demanded bankruptcy of companies who owed CCB 4 million BGN, in order to settle the debts to the bank. A total of 1,100 court cases were filed as at the end of January. According to recent information, CCB has managed to collect only 600 million BGN.