Team Head at BNB Banking Supervision Charged in Corpbank Case
Sofia, April 9 (BTA) - Sofia City Prosecution Office has raised
charges of mismanagement against Slaviyana Danailova-Veleva,
head of a team at the Credit Institutions Supervision
Directorate at the Banking Supervision Department of the
Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), the prosecution magistracy said
Thursday.
She is charged because between May 2012 and June 20, 2014 she
has forgone her official duties at the remote supervision of
Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) and the supervisory
inspections at the bank. After receiving monthly and quarterly
analytical reports, as provided in detailed breakdown by the
Risk Assessment System Manual for the needs of ongoing
supervision, Veleva did not carry out the necessary remote
supervision, the prosecution says.
Veleva obstructed the completion of supervision of the
inspecting officials at Corpbank, gave instruction not to check
the viability of the spending of extended credits, told the BNB
Banking Supervision Department inspectors to use the data from
the operational documents which were filled in advance by
employees of the supervised bank when preparing the conclusions
in the report of the BNB Supervision Department, without
checking the credits. According to the prosecution, she also
obstructed the inspection itself, shortening deadlines set down
by an order of a BNB Deputy Governor, limited the contacts
between BNB inspectors and Corpbank employees, created
conditions for the inspection report to be drafted without being
discussed in advance with all participants in the inspection
team, among other.
The crime was perpetrated to benefit Corpbank shareholders in
the form of increased profit, the prosecution says.
Vreleva has been left in remand.
The Sofia City Prosecution Office said on Wednesday that three
more persons have been charged in the case of Corporate
Commercial Bank (Corpbank). Mismanagement charges have been
brought against Snezhanka Veleva-Stefanova, Head of Internal
Audit at Corpbank, and Margarita Goleva and Krassimir
Hadjigenov, external auditors serving with KPMG Bulgaria. The
persons charged in the Corpbank case also include its majority
owner Tsvetan Vassilev, who is accused of playing a part in the
embezzlement of 206 million leva from the bank, and Roumen
Simeonov and Tsvetan Gounev, former BNB deputy governors and
former heads of the BNB Banking Supervision Department, who
allegedly failed to discharge their supervisory duties in
respect of Corpbank.
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