“Tinkoff” imperceptibly “robbing” the accounts of Russians – for which they write off money

The Russian bank “Tinkoff” has introduced a fee for servicing foreign currency accounts of its clients (euro, dollars, pounds and Swiss francs). If there are more than 1000 conventional units on the account, you will have to pay 1% of the deposit amount monthly.

This is reported by dissatisfied customers of the bank and the press service of Tinkoff.

Innovations will take effect from June 23the same rules will also apply to the currency held in brokerage accounts.

Tinkoff customers are surprised by the bank’s decision / Photo: screenshot

Why are commissions introduced?

Tinkoff is not the first bank in the aggressor country to take such a step. Already done this before Raiffeisenbank and according to Russian media reports, Rosbank is preparing for this.

“This measure is due to the unreliability of foreign partners in working with currency for Russia and is aimed at reducing the currency position of Tinkoff Bank,” representatives of the financial institution say.

Most likely, banks introduce such a commission, because it is unprofitable for them to keep clients’ money in foreign currency.

According to a BBC correspondent, ATMs started having problems with withdrawing currency, on Thursday evening they managed to find only five ATMs in Moscowwhere you can withdraw dollars.

Impact on Sberbank

In early May, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke in detail about the sixth package of sanctions against Russia.

One of the important steps is the shutdown of the largest Russian bank Sberbank from the international SWIFT system.

Also sanctioned several smaller state-owned banksthey will no longer be able to distribute their content in any form within the EU.

About what other restrictions were introduced against Russia, read in our material.

Segodnya wrote earlier about what is happening with Sberbank shares on the stock exchange and told what kind of assistance to Ukraine was provided by the World Bank.