Russia’s largest bank pulls out of Ukraine

Russia’s largest bank pulls out of Ukraine

FPJ BureauUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 08:00 AM IST
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Moscow: Russia’s Sberbank, the largest in the country, on Tuesday announced it had sold its Ukraine division, where operations have been complicated since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.

Sberbank, whose controlling stake is owned by the Russian state, said in a statement that it had signed a deal with a “consortium of investors” including Latvia’s Norvik Banka and a Belarusian private company.

“The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2017,” the statement said.

The bank has faced difficulties since 2014, when Moscow annexed Crimea while pro-Russian separatists declared independence in parts of eastern Ukraine, sparking a conflict that has killed thousands. Ukrainian activists have viewed Sberbank as a symbol of Russia’s unwelcome presence in the country, with many incidents of vandalism over three years.

On March 16, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko slapped one-year sanctions on a number of Russian state-owned banks in the country, including Sberbank, blocking them from taking money out of the country.

                AFP

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