DIA has suspended payments to depositors Vneshprombank – RBC

Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) has suspended the insurance payments to depositors Vneshprombank one day. This RBC said the source familiar with the situation in Vneshprombank and confirmed the source, close to the Central Bank. DIA later issued a press release stating that payments will continue from January 22.

VTB24, which is chosen as agent bank for the payment of insurance compensation for deposits in BIG, said that the payments had been suspended in connection with the revocation Vneshprombank have a license to conduct banking operations. “By decision of the DIA reception of applications and the payment of insurance compensation will continue for 22 January,” – said in a statement.

As a source told RBC familiar with the situation in the bank, in Vneshprombank is “Crusher” (those who before the revocation of the license he shared major contributions to several smaller ones, in order to reduce the contribution to the size of the insured amount) and those who transferred money from the accounts of legal entities on the accounts of individuals that fall under insurance. A source close to DIA, said that “Crusher” in Vneshprombank “a little – 50 70 million rubles. Total”. In an official press release, the DIA said that payments are suspended due to the revocation of the license.

As previously wrote RBC in Vneshprombank had due the Russian Olympic Committee, designed to prepare athletes for the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Rio Rio de Janeiro, as well as the wife of the deputy head of the money of the Russian government Dmitry Kozak Natalia. Forbes wrote that investors Vneshprombank were also the wife of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, son of the head of “Transneft” Nikolay Tokarev Andrei Bolotov. In addition, RBC sources close to the Russian Orthodox Church, said that in Vneshprombank hung up 1.5 billion rubles. Moscow Patriarchate.

January 21 the Central Bank revoked the license of Vneshprombank. Temporary administration of the Bank of Russia and the DIA has revealed large-scale operations, indicating the withdrawal of assets from a credit institution. Hole in the bank’s balance sheet reached a record 187.4 billion rubles. As stated in the CBA guide Vneshprombank built a whole system of falsifying statements on the basis of primary documents, including statements of the correspondent accounts of non-resident banks, credit profiles of customers, transactions on customer accounts.

The controller assumes that the actions associated with the withdrawal of assets carried Vneshprombank former management and entities controlled by the Bank.