Evidence against Tsvetan Vassilev in the CorpBank case contributed to taking the decision of great importance to the state – it is related to the financial pyramid which collapsed owing to the fugitive “pharaoh”. The Court of Arbitration in Washington has finally settled the dispute between Bulgaria and the Omani fund and on 13 August ruled on the international arbitration case No. ARB/15/43 filed by Omani State General Reserve Fund against Republic of Bulgaria with the International Center for Settling Investment Disputes in Washington, Bulgarian Ministry of Finance reported.

Steam train puffs and whistles past the fields and whitewashed houses …

That was a refrain of a children’s song accompanying a game in which kids made a line imitating a passenger train. In a similar manner, just like kids, the fosterlings of oligarch Ivo Prokopiev lined up on imaginary rails of corruption to puff out the next in a row editorial review released in the latest issue of the Capital weekly.

Kristiyan Boikov was 14 years old when his parents gave him his first computer as a gift. He was soon obsessed, teaching himself a variety of computer languages and then, like many of his friends, turning his focus to issues of network security. The world of cryptography held a special appeal, New York Times wrote in a big article devoted to the recent giant hack in Bulgaria.

What does one do when, in own words, one has lost a mother, father, brother and best friend owing to “legalised narcotics, such as alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical drugs?” Of course, one will grieve, smoke oneself stupid and start shooting films against drug prohibition. And when you have a chance to combine it with a generously sponsored overseas trip (officially with $500,000, as the unofficial sum is yet unknown) you will pack hallucinogens in your luggage and take a plane to Bulgaria where you will get doped “for art’s sake” in front of hotels and in public baths.

It’s been sizzling hot in Bulgaria in recent days. The blistering temperatures seem to melt even stone but in air-conditioned and quiet editorial offices of the media outlets sustained by natural gas baron Sasho Donchev the staffers are broiling on a different fire. It’s August, but the turnover of fake news about the sworn enemy of the behind-the-scenes clique Delyan Peevski must be kept at high rate.

A certain journalist of Duma daily shows muscle to demonstrate that he is still alive and kicking. A commendable effort for a newspaper which now publishes more obituaries than opinion pieces. Commendable but not quite. Because there is a spoon of tar in a barrel of honey where the fugitive banker used to thrust his hand every day until the barrel was emptied. And this has made the analysis meaningless and turned into a fake.

Last week, in two Serbian publications the name of Tsvetan Vassilev is quoted as an example of fraudster who has been living in Serbia since 2014. Vassilev drove to bankruptcy the glass factory in Paracin and is now sought by Interpol. The mass media even note that the fugitive banker is an illustration to the saying “Take the money and run!”

Energy was the highlighted topic at the talks between Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev held on Monday within the framework of the First Caspian Economic Forum in Turkmenistan.

Apart from the data of the National Revenue Agency (NRA) the hackers of TAD GROUP tried to illegally breach databases of other state institutions, but not all of their attempts were successful. This transpires from the new body of evidence in the probe into Ivan Todorov, owner of TAD GROUP, Commercial CEO of the company Georgi Yankov and officer Kristian Boykov, which the Prosecutor’s Office published on Friday.

Two more official positions in support of Ivan Geshev’s candidacy for Bulgaria's prosecutor general have been released – this time by the regional prosecutor’s offices in Dobrich and Smolyan.