According to the newspaper, Promsberbank, according to the Russian central bank, was a "key link" in one of the largest money laundering schemes that ever exist in Russia.

According to the regulator, the main shareholder of the bank, Alexei Kulikov, as noted, "was not charged with money laundering, but from his non-profit institution on Kirovskaya Street his bank helped to withdraw more than $ 10 billion from Russia".

It is indicated that "Promsberbank" was the key link in the scheme, which used exchange transactions, called "mirror transactions". It was reported that these transactions consisted in buying Russian blue-chip shares through local brokers in Moscow for rubles and simultaneously selling them in London for dollars or euros, bypassing the rules for withdrawing funds from the country.

In mid-October, a court in the Russian Federation passed a verdict in the case of embezzlement in "Promsberbank". According to Russian media reports, four of the defendants, including the main shareholder Aleksey Kulikov, received from three years of probation to nine years in prison.

As previously reported, "URA-Inform", the Spanish bank Banco Sabadell decided to leave Barcelona. According to the information of the source, Banco Sabadell for the first time in its history carries its main office, as the bank's management is afraid of the withdrawal of employees, as well as the exit of the main shareholders of the bank.