Bulgaria Ex Cbank Governors Exposed as State Security Agents

Todor Valchev and Lyubomir Filipov, former governors of BNB, have collaborated to the intelligence and secret police during the communist regime. Photo by BGNES

A special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, confirmed three former governors of the national bank to have been state security agents and collaborators.

The names of Ivan Drganevski, Todor Valchev and Lyubomir Filipov were added on Wednesday to the blacklist that the so-called Files Commission has been preparing since its establishment tow years ago.

It already features Socialist President Georgi Parvanov, MPs, former constitutional judges, supreme magistrates, investigators, members of parliament, prominent and well-known former and current Bulgarian journalists.

The files of the former Committee for State Security are a thorny issue in Bulgaria, especially when it comes to the past of high-ranking officials.

Bulgaria's communist-era security service is believed to have remained potent after the fall of communism with the ex-operatives closely linked to the political and business establishment.

 

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