A draft law has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation today to ban the publication of a list of banks accompanying contracts for the state defense order, DW reports..
In December 2017, the Russian parliament adopted amendments to the law " However, the rule on the publication of a list of such banks remained in force.. Now they want to abolish it.
The purpose of the bill is clear - to remove banks from possible sanctions in connection with the war in Ukraine, in particular, disconnection from the SWIFT system.
Earlier, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 6 banks from the list of the Central Bank were disconnected from the SWIFT system. The sixth package of EU sanctions against the aggressor country provides for the disconnection of Sberbank, Moscow Credit Bank and Rosselkhozbank from the system. Gazprombamnk is not on the list.
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The European Union plans to introduce a new package of sanctions against Russia in the coming weeks for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.