/ world today news/ President Rosen Plevneliev refused to declassify the transcript of the consultations held with the parliamentary parties on the KTB on June 29 of this year. on the grounds that the information is not of significant public interest.
This is clear from the response of the presidential administration to Stefan Stoykov, who requested to be provided with the document under the Law on Access to Public Information (PIA), the “Sega” newspaper reported.
Stoykov is a lawyer, one of the active participants in the protests last summer.
The consultations were called urgently by the head of state after the KTB crisis and the attempts to destabilize the banking sector and were attended by the prime minister, representatives of the parliamentary parties, the governor and the deputy governor of the BNB. The talks ended with a general opinion that the banking system is stable, and the deposits of citizens and companies are guaranteed. The BSP also insisted on the declassification of the transcript of this meeting, as there was conflicting information about the positions advocated by the party representatives present.
The presidency’s refusal, signed by the president’s chief secretary Rosen Kozhuharov, states that the information presented by the BNB during the meeting is a “professional secret” under the Law on Credit Institutions and access to it is limited.
Apart from that, the transcript also represented “official public information” within the meaning of Art. 13 of the ZDOI, which also placed it under special protection. Access to this type of information could be limited “when it is related to the operational preparation of the bodies’ acts and has no independent significance”. According to Plevneliev’s lawyers, the opinions, opinions and recommendations expressed at the meeting have no independent meaning. The law allows an exception only in cases where there is an “overriding public interest”. However, Plevneliev’s rightists considered that what was said during the consultations was not of such public interest. Stefan Stoykov appealed the refusal before the Sofia Administrative Court.
BGNES reminds that since the “KTB” saga broke out, the BNB has been continuously issuing contradictory information about the state of the bank, scandalous and contradictory statements during the crisis. The governor of the BNB, Ivan Iskrov, first announced that KTB had not failed the bank, and ten days later announced that its license would be revoked. At his last press conference at the BNB, he invited only selected media to announce his conclusions about the crisis surrounding KTB.
In connection with the KTB case, four people were detained – KTB’s chief treasurer Margarita Petrova, Orlin Rusev, deputy chief accountant Borislava Treneva-Kyuchukova and chief accountant Maria Dimova. All were released with a “signature” measure, and Rusev for BGN 10,000.
The prosecutor’s office also became entangled with theories about the missing 206 million leva from KTB – first it was announced that they were exported in sacks, then that they were siphoned off for years. According to the court, it is not about BGN 206 million missing from the central treasury of KTB, but about the transfer of this amount to the accounts of “Bromak” in connection with a loan agreement.
In the “KTB” case, Tsvetan Vasilev, Ilian Zafirov, Georgi Hristov, and Alexander Pantaleev, Georgi Zyapkov and the deputy governor of the BNB, Tsvetan Gunev, also face charges.
Today, the BNB stated that there are no conditions for KTB to exit from special supervision.
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