NACP suspends Raiffeisen Bank International's status as an international war sponsor
Kyiv • UNN
The NACP has temporarily suspended Raiffeisen Bank International's status as a sponsor of international war to hold bilateral talks with the European Commission amid Austria's insistence on removing the bank from Ukraine's blacklist.
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) has suspended the status of the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), the parent company of Ukraine's Raiffeisen Bank, as an international sponsor of the of the war. This is stated on the NACP website in the list of international sponsors of the war, reports UNN.
The status has been suspended for the period of bilateral consultations involving representatives of the European Commission
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On the eve of the European Council summit, Reuters reported, citing its own sources, that Austria is seeking the exclusion of RBI, whose subsidiaries are the largest Western banks in both Russia and Ukraine, from the Ukrainian blacklist in exchange for signing new EU sanctions against Russia. European Union's new sanctions against Russia. At the summit on December 14-15, Vienna did not to block the sanctions.
The NACP added RBI to its blacklist at the end of March 2023. Raiffeisen Bank is the only one among the subsidiaries of Western banks is excluded from the state program 5-7-9 lending program, as the Russian company Raiffeisen the Russian company Raiffeisen Leasing, while all banks and non-bank financial institutions of the Russian Federation, Ukraine imposed sectoral sanctions.
