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Acting Minister of Economy Kiril Petkov announced that a commission will enter the Bulgarian Development Bank to see why it supported 8 people with nearly BGN 1 billion. He said this himself in an interview for the “120 Minutes” program on bTV.
“I am appointing a commission for public control of funds and for transparency together with the Financial Control Agency, together with the audit department of the Ministry of Economy and we will enter the BBR to see how these funds were spent and why by statute and by law this bank should to help small businesses, and almost 1 billion is given to 8 people, of which 4 are probably related,” commented Petkov. I’m sure the others aren’t random either, he added.
It was interesting for him to see the first report of the Court of Auditors on the BDB, and he specified that this is the bank created with public money and its main mission is to finance small and medium-sized enterprises, to help small businesses that cannot get credit from commercial banks. “The first 8 loans to the 8 big clients are for 946 million, each of them received more than 118 million, huge state funds were given to only 8 companies. With this money, 946 companies can be financed. 4 of these 8 – there and journalistic investigations about them, which show that there may be an indirect connection with Peevski. More than 500 million were given to these companies,” said the acting minister of economy.
What he also found out is that the bank is not 100% state-owned, but 99.9996%, 8 shares belonged to a commercial bank. So, if the Minister of Economy wants to call a general meeting and change the supervisory board, he has to wait 8 months. For a year, the ministry has had a letter from the bank that owns these shares that it wants to donate them, as they do not suit its business. The Ministry of Economy has not responded. As of Friday, the state is 100% owner, as the Council of Ministers accepted these 8 shares with its first decision. “Which unties our hands to enter, to conduct an audit, to appoint people who protect the public interest, to change the statutes and from now on no one can distribute 1 billion to 8 people anymore, said Petkov.
BBR said the bank has always cooperated with regulators. And in this case, it will provide full assistance to the principal – the Ministry of Economy, in connection with the requested information.
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