The Central Bank of the Russian Federation from October 9, ceased operations on the area of the Crimea separate structural unit of the Ukrainian Assets of the Bank, according to the report of the controller.

" opinion on the termination of activity of divisions of the Ukrainian Bank dictated only by the tasks of protection of interests of depositors and customers, legal rights have been violated, and among them due to the actual stop of the operation unit of the Bank in the Republic of Crimea, as well as lack of prospects for the resumption of its activities ", - said in the report.

The compensation activities will produce the Crimean Fund for the protection of depositors to whom the rights and requirements on deposits. Civil requirements for these banks, as well as among them from the Fund, in appropriate cases will be considered by the competent judicial authorities in the normal manner, stresses the regulator.

Ukrainian banks began to withdraw from the Crimea after joining the Peninsula to Russia in March 2014. In may, the NBU decided to stop the operation of credit institutions of Ukraine in Crimea due to the inability to exercise control and supervision over them.

The active Bank is included in the group of medium-sized credit institutions according to the classification of the national Bank of Ukraine, the volume of its assets is 3, 5 billion hryvnias (about 272 million).

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