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Bulgaria 

Belgrade court rules to extradite CCB majority shareholder to Bulgaria – report

March 6, 2015March 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

A court in Serbia’s capital city of Belgrade ruled on March 6 to extradite Tsvetan Vassilev, the majority shareholder in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament sets up committee of inquiry into Corporate Commercial Bank affair

March 5, 2015March 6, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on March 5 2015 to set up an ad hoc committee of inquiry into the conduct of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian tax authorities probe four ‘Protest Network’ activists

February 25, 2015February 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair, Peevski protests

At the request of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s office, Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency has begun a formal investigation into four

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Bulgaria 

Political objections halt nomination of Bulgaria’s new central bank deputy chief

February 13, 2015February 16, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, CCB affair

Bulgarian National Bank governor Ivan Iskrov’s nomination of Dimitar Kostov to be his deputy chief of the central bank has

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Business 

Sofia prosecutors ask court to order withdrawal of KPMG licence over CCB affair – reports

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has lodged a court application against the decision by the Commission for Public Oversight of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs sack central bank deputy governor

January 21, 2015January 25, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted to dismiss Tsvetan Gounev, deputy Bulgarian National Bank governor in charge of the bank supervision department, on

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Bulgaria 

More than 1000 of Vassilev’s valuable coins to go to Bulgaria’s National History Museum

January 19, 2015January 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

More than 1000 highly valuable coins, mostly gold, from the collection of Corporate Commercial Bank majority shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev are

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria high court dismisses CCB shareholders appeal

January 14, 2015January 16, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) has dismissed the appeals lodged by several shareholders in the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) against

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Business 

KPMG Bulgaria avoids licence loss, faces fine for CCB audits – reports

January 9, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency CCB affair

Auditing firm KPMG Bulgaria will be fined 100 000 leva, or about 51 100 euro, but will not lose its

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