VEB’s Chairman said the “mask show” in the office Ukrainian “daughters” – RBC

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The law enforcement bodies of Ukraine held on Thursday, June 18, the searches at the headquarters of the Ukrainian” daughter “of the Russian Vnesheconombank, said in an interview to television channel” Russia 24 “head of VEB Vladimir Dmitriev.

« Unpleasant watch survived guide our subsidiary bank in Ukraine. The main office was a show of strength, masks were real show in the best tradition. Overturned cabinets, removed hard disks, removed all the information and even defiantly at the head office of the bank photographed a portrait of the President of the Russian Federation. Apparently, spetsstruktury [Ukraine], even this is, so to speak, of special interest “- said Dmitriev (quoted by RIA Novosti news agency).

The name of the bank, which passed” mask show “Dmitriev told However VEB’s subsidiary banks in Ukraine is Prominvestbank, founded in 1992 and since 2009 belongs to the group VEB (according to the June 2, 2015, VEB owns more than 99% of its shares), one of the largest banks in the country.

At the end of 2014 amounted to a loss of Prominvestbank about 6 billion hryvnia. In late 2014 it was decided to capitalization of PJSC “Prominvestbank” by the additional issue of shares. In December 2014 VEB to the capital of Prominvestbank made another $ 280 million.

According to the bank, in the prevailing conditions in Ukraine Russian banks work hard. He particularly noted that last year the share of repayment in Ukraine amounted to only 20%.

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed his concern over the fate of loans granted earlier by Russian commercial banks Ukrainian customers.

«We are not indifferent to the fate of not only sovereign debt, but also the fate of the commercial debt, which is about $ 25 billion. A substantial portion of this debt was provided by Ukraine from our commercial banks, where the main shareholder is the state. Therefore, in any case we must ensure that what is happening there. But even if the shareholder is not a state, it is still the largest, supporting Russian banks have placed their money in debt instruments of the Ukrainian state, “- said Medvedev at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, stressing the need for the use of debt repayment” all the possible remedies, including court ».

Last year, Ukraine offices of Russian banks were attacked – dozens of people pelted them with eggs and bubbles with paint and pasted posters on the windows with the requirements to cancel all previously issued loans to Ukrainians and the rent for the premises to convey to the families of soldiers killed during the fighting in the south-east of Ukraine.