Държавата КТБ
Corporate Commercial Bank - The State

Author(s): Zornitsa Markova, Tatyana Puncheva- Vassileva, Nikolay Stoyanov, Rosen Bosev, Ilin Stanev, Ani Kodzhaivanova, Desislava Leshtarska
Contributor(s): Iva Rudnikova (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Social Sciences, Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Media studies, Business Economy / Management, Criminal Law, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Civil Society, Governance, Communication studies, Sociology, Economic history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Political economy, Politics and law, Methodology and research technology, Management and complex organizations, Criminology, Economic development, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Law on Economics, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Financial Markets, Public Finances, Fiscal Politics / Budgeting, Social Norms / Social Control, Business Ethics, Socio-Economic Research, EU-Legislation, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: Издателство »Изток-Запад«
Keywords: Bulgaria; state; politics; banking sector; private business; interests; money; power; corruption; oligarchy; backstage; journalistic investigation; mafia; scheme; money; Boyko Borisov; journalism; Transparency International; book; books
Summary/Abstract: This book is the result of a two-year journalistic investigation that traces the history of Corporate Commercial Bank from its origin to its bankruptcy (1994-2014). The investigation was conducted on the basis of dozens of meetings with direct participants or witnesses of the events, representatives of state structures, political parties, business, regulators. In the process, hundreds of official and informal documents have been analyzed. Access to information by Bulgarian and international organizations has been requested many times. The collected facts, data, documents, and exclusive testimonies included in this book contain for the first time conclusive evidence of political corruption in Bulgaria. The aim of the KTBfiles project is to show the genesis of the "CCB model" (Corporate Commercial Bank model) and the technology of its expansion to magnitude, which pressed all key state institutions to the wall. The book explores the circumstances that made this vicious model possible, as well as the mechanisms for its eradication. This makes the investigation much more comprehensive, multi-layered and important than the chronology of bank bankruptcy, whether it is the largest in Bulgarian history. This qualitative journalistic investigation answers not only to the question #WHO but also to the questions how, why and especially what follows if we stop asking and live permanently with civil indifference and cynicism.

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