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Ukraine’s PrivatBank accuses ex-owners of allegedly laundering $620mn via assets purchased in US
HT and Zagrebacka Banka prepare to launch Croatia’s first local mobile bank
Ukraine's PrivatBank, nationalised in late 2016, has reportedly ac- cused its former owners, oligarchs Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, of allegedly laundering $622.8mn, which were issued as loans to one companies of the beneficiaries for the same pur- pose, but then were used by other companies to purchase assets for them in the US.
In May, PrivatBank instituted legal proceedings against its former owners as well as "other individuals and companies", before the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.
The bank is seeking "redress in respect of losses amounting to hun- dreds of millions of US dollars, which PrivatBank asserts it has suf- fered as a result of various unlawful acts perpetrated against it by its former owners, their close associates ... and various US-registered companies,” the bank's statement reads.
Croatian telco Hrvatski telekom and Zagrebacka banka are close to launching the country’s first local mobile bank, Poslovni Dnevnik reported.
The two firms — Croatia’s largest telco and bank respectively — are currently testing the service, to be called Telekom Banking, which is expected to be launched during the summer, Goran Loncaric, head of Telekom Banking at Croatian Telecom, told Poslovni Dnevnik. He said that users are so far “very happy” with the mobile banking service.
According to the report, the new bank is along the lines of the tue up between Telekom Romania and Polish bank Alior Bank in the Romanian market.
Austria's Raiffeisen will hold a banking summit in Tashkent on June 26, Uzbek state-run Jahon news agency reported on June 6.
This event is set up as a “logical continuation of the presentation of the economic and investment potential of Uzbekistan” held on May 7 in Vienna for representatives of over 50 customer companies of Raiffeisen Bank, Austrian Control Bank, and the Federal Economic Chamber, the report said. The summit was made possible thanks to socio-economic reforms in Uzbekistan aimed at improving the country's financial and investment climate, it added.
Uzbekistan has been actively attracting foreign investment as part of a process to liberalise the country and its economy.
Austria's Raiffeisen to hold banking summit in Tashkent