In the Verkhovna Rada a draft law № 5296 is registered, and in case of its adoption the banks with Russian capital assets will be obliged to get rid of ties with the country-aggressor within six months. Otherwise, the National Bank will cease their activity in Ukraine. The document has been submitted by the MPs from the “Ukrainian Patriots Association – UKROP” Vitaliy Kupriy, Taras Batenko, Iryna Konstankevych, Oleksandr Shevchenko, Oleksandr Dubinin and Victor Shevchenko.
The authors of the draft law propose to amend the Law of Ukraine “On banks and banking activity”, which will provide the National Bank of Ukraine with the authority and duty to establish the fact confirming banks’ ties with the country-aggressor. If such connection is established, the bank will not be allowed to get a banking license or it will be revoked.
“If the NBU establishes connection between a bank and the country-aggressor, in particular Russia, this bank will be required to stop such connection within six months. In fact, it means that the Russian shareholders should sell their shares. If during this period the requirement is not fulfilled, the regulator is obliged to revoke the license of the financial institution within two weeks,” said one of the draft law authors Vitaliy Kupriy.
Besides it is proposed in the draft law to oblige the National Bank of Ukraine to inspect all registered banks in Ukraine in order to establish the residents of the country that carries out military aggression against Ukraine among the persons associated with the banks. For such an inspection one month is given from the date this law comes in force.
“The banks with Russian roots – these are not only the state banks of the Russian Federation, but also all the banks that have ties with the Russians – will have 7 months and a half to settle the matter: the NBU inspection will last one month, 6 months are given for sale or closure, and two weeks – for the license revocation,” said Vitaliy Kupriy.
As it is known, today in Ukraine there are more than 10 banks associated with Russia. In particular, these are Sberbank of Russia, Prominvestbank, VTB Bank.
Earlier, a group of MPs from UKROP have proposed the Parliament to adopt the law on imposing sectoral sanctions against Russia in the banking sector.
