Rossiya Bank
Russian joint stock bank
Bank "Rossiya" (Russian: Банк «Россия»), also known as Joint Stock Bank "Rossiya" (Russian: Акционерное общество «Акционерный Банк «Россия»), is a Russian joint-stock bank founded on June 27, 1990. Headquartered in Saint Petersburg, it is among the largest banks in Russia by assets.
The bank's largest shareholder is Yury Kovalchuk. Following the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Bank Rossiya became the first major Russian bank to expand its operations into the territory. Consequently, the bank and its primary shareholders were subjected to international sanctions by the United States, the European Union, and other countries. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Bank Rossiya was among the first Russian financial institutions disconnected from the SWIFT international payment system in March 2022.
History
Communist Party ownership
On August 23, 1990, a secret memorandum from Vladimir Ivashko, who was Gorbachev's deputy general secretary, was issued to organize the transfer of CPSU funds, CPSU financing and support of its operations through associations, ventures, foundations, etc. which are to act as invisible economics. Bank Rossiya was one of the hundreds of enterprises that CPSU financiers used to funnel the party gold away.
In 1990, the CPSU committee of the Leningrad Oblast became Bank Rossiya's largest shareholder (48.4%), but after the coup attempt in August 1991 the bank's activity was frozen on September 2, 1991 as it was CPSU-related.
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