PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - May 30

SOFIA, May 30 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

-- Bulgaria's third largest lender, First Investment Bank, has decided to capitalize its 2016 profit of 98.8 million levs ($56.19 million) to meet the central bank's requirements to boost its capital. (Capital Daily, 24 Chasa, Standart, Trud)

-- Bulgarian Centre for Prevention of Corruption and Organised Crime said the country lacks capacity and coordination to combat graft and do not have a dedicated body to investigate high level corruption. (Duma, Capital Daily)

SEGA - Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov said the defence ministry will review again the offers for the purchase of jet fighters for the army. The previous interim government ranked the offers in April and said talks should start with Sweden for the purchase of SAAB's Gripen jet fighters. ($1 = 1.7584 leva)

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