Banks in Crimea

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2024: Sber became the largest employer in Crimea

Sberbank has become the largest employer in Crimea. This was announced in mid-August 2024 by the head of the credit institution German Gref. Read more here.

2023

Nationalization of 12 Ukrainian banks

Deputies of the State Council of Crimea at a meeting in absentia adopted a resolution on the nationalization of the property of foreign citizens and states committing unfriendly actions against Russia. Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov wrote about this in his Telegram channel in early February 2023.

The list includes about 500 objects related to various enterprises and banks, tourist, sports infrastructure, - he wrote.

Crimean authorities nationalize movable and immovable property of 12 Ukrainian banks

The document lists the following banks:

• "Finance and Credit";
• "Forum ";
• Ukrsibbank;
• Preus Bank MKB;
• Imexbank;
• AB Express Bank;
• Joint Stock Proinvest Bank;
• Ukrainian Joint Stock Commercial Industrial and Investment Bank;
• Ukrsotsbank;
• "State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine";
• "Nadra ";
• MTB Bank.

The listed banks own residential buildings, warehouses, land plots, shops, offices and hotels in Simferopol, Yalta, Feodosia, Evpatoria, Alushta and other cities and regions of Crimea, it clarifies. TASS

From the draft resolution of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea published on February 1, 2023, it also follows that the Ripario Hotel Group hotel is nationalized on the site of the former Pribrezhny boarding house in Yalta, the Chaika International Children's Medical Center in Yevpatoria and two sports grounds of the Dynamo Kyiv football club.

Vladimir Konstantinov noted that such a measure is necessary from a moral point of view: Ukrainians who support the Armed Forces (AFU) and national battalions, as well as sponsor the killings of Russians, should not make money on Crimeans. According to him, the organization's enterprises themselves will not be privatized, only the activities of the founders will stop.^[1]

Start of Sberbank's work in Crimea

On January 18, 2023, Sberbank officially announced the start of work in Crimea. The credit institution opened the first ATMs on the peninsula, formed a team there, and offices will begin to open in the first half of 2023. During the year, all the necessary services and services of Sberbank will be deployed. Read more here.

2021: Banks of Ukraine did not pay 60 billion rubles to Crimeans. Authorities are preparing a lawsuit

The Crimean authorities in April 2021 plan to file another lawsuit against the Ukrainian authorities - this time in connection with the "banking blockade." The amount of damage arising from the withdrawal from the peninsula after its accession to Russia of Ukrainian banks that have not fulfilled their obligations to depositors is estimated at 60 billion rubles. Of these, almost 30 billion rubles. compensated at the expense of the Russian budget.

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