SMP Bank confirmed the freezing of their assets in the US – BBC Russian

• March 6, 2015

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SMP Bank confirms that the US frozen their accounts, as previously newspaper reported Wall Street Journal.

According to BBC BBC representative of the bank, the amount of “quite small” and is less than 2% of total assets, down from $ 65 million, of which wrote Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper claimed that blocking underwent SMP Bank Account in different US financial institutions, including Citibank NA, Deutsche Bank, MasterCard.

According to the WSJ, frozen bank accounts and “Russia” and its subsidiaries in the amount of 572 million dollars. Get this comment bank BBC BBC has not yet succeeded.

Joint-Stock Bank “Russia” Yuri Kovalchuk and partners SMP Bank Rotenberg brothers were included in the sanctions list of the US about a year ago.