Frozen in the United States under penalties assets of Russian credit organisations " Russia ", "Sobinbank" and the Bank amounted to about 640 million dollars in dozens of American financial institutions, writes the print edition referring to the information provided to it by the U.S. Treasury.

The Bank "Russia" became the 1st Russian legal entity, which came under American punishment after joining Russia in the Crimea. The USA explained that will freeze the assets of the Bank due to the fact that he belongs trapped under punishment Yuri Kovalchuk from the "inner circle" of the President of the Russian Federation. on April 28, under similar sentences were SMP Bank (brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, also subscribe to this "close the circle" ) and its " Sobinbank ".

on the frozen accounts of the Bank "Russia" and "Sobinbank" in the United States are 572 million dollars. According to the publication, this represents approximately 10% of the total assets of credit organizations in 2013 at current exchange rate. The principal amount of approximately 435 million - was placed in a financial institution Computershare, which is engaged in the management of dividend payments and shares on behalf of its customers. A few dozen million frozen in the account at Raiffeisen Bank, leads WSJ data of the Ministry of Finance.

SMP Bank has left on American accounts of $ 65 million or 2% of assets 2013 at the current rate, according to correspondents. This money is distributed among hundreds of accounts, the largest of which is in Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and J. P. Morgan Chase (several million dollars), writes the print edition referring to information of the Ministry of Finance.


Western countries from March 2014 has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations because of the position of Russia in Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices was the list of individual penalties against persons, which the EU considers responsible for the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine, released in February.

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