Times of Malta wins final court battle in Bulgaria over Satabank reporting

Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation has refused to reopen a SLAPP defamation case filed by the co-owner of the shuttered Satabank against Times of Malta. Bulgaria's highest court upheld earlier rulings rejecting Hristo Georgiev's claim against Allied Newspapers Limited over a January 2019 article titled 'Billions of euros in transactions at Satabank