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Antoaneta Vasileva leaving the Investigation Service building. Photo: BGNES
Antoaneta Vasileva, wife of Tsvetan Vasilev – majority owner of troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) was questioned in the Sofia Investigation Service in connection to a money laundering investigation, reports Dnevnik.bg.
She was summoned as a witness in the case investigating the purchase of a CHF 20 M house at the shore of the Geneva lake by herself and her husband.
According to Vasileva's lawyer Menko Menkov, Vasileva presented documents proving that her husband provided CHF 10 M – declared income with paid taxes. Vasileva took the other half as a credit from a Swiss bank, mortgaging the house.
Upon leaving the Investigation Service building, Menkov told journalists the property was a single room, unfurnished building of 200 sq m with a leaking roof, which most likely would be distrained by the bank.
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