Bulgaria Revokes License of Major Bank
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s central bank has stripped the country’s fourth-biggest lender of its license and announced that it will launch bankruptcy proceedings against the bank.
The central bank said in a statement on Thursday that “the management board of the Bulgarian National Bank withdrew the license for banking activity of Corporate Commercial Bank.” It also said that according to a report submitted by Corpbank’s supervisors it had negative capital of leva 3.75 billion ($2.4 billion).
Run on Corpbank Triggered Central Bank Action
In June, Corpbank was hit by a run, leading the central bank to put the firm under special supervision after it had stopped all payments and bank operations because of a liquidity drain.
Shareholder Faces Embezzlement Charges Abroad
The bank’s main shareholder, TsvetanVasilev, who is out of the country, has been charged with embezzlement, which he denies.
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