Kazakhstan: Blocked accounts in Russian banks over $ 21.6 million

The amount of the residues in the correspondent accounts of three “daughters” of Russian banks in Kazakhstan, which, due to the sanctions of the West, are blocked in foreign credit organizations, is 9.2 billion tenge (over $ 21.6 million). About this, as TASS writes, said the chairman of the Agency for the Regulation and Development of the Financial Market of Kazakhstan Madina Abylkasymova.

According to her, we are talking about the accounts of such subsidiaries in Kazakhstan as Sberbank, Alfa-Bank and VTB. “In addition, foreign banks blocked payments in foreign currency for certain customers of Sberbank JSC in the amount of 2.9 billion tenge (more than $ 6.8 million). Payments and transfers in foreign currency are blocked by customers of DB Alfa-Bank DB JSC For individual customers in the amount of 3.9 billion tenge (over $ 9.1 million), ”the head of the agency explained. To unlock operations, bank customers need to independently obtain a separate resolution of the US regulator, filling out a special form.