As banking portal Banki.ru learned, Smolensky Bank board chairman and head of the Moscow branch Pavel Shitov (he held or holds 30.61% of the bank’s shares) is no longer the lending institution’s majority shareholder.
One of the banker’s Twitter account visitors shares his assumptions, writing “I do not rule out that pavelnshitov is today no longer a shareholder of Smolensky Bank”. Shitov answered that “he is right, this cannot be ruled out. No longer a shareholder”.
On Monday, December 2, Smolensky Bank said that it asked the Bank of Russia to provide a loan of Rub 8 bln. The regulator confirmed that it received a request to provide a stabilization loan, but the regulator’s press service declined to comment.
Smolensky Bank suspended client account activities because of a glitch in late November. At that time the bank explained higher load on its automated banking system by the negative news flow after Master-Bank’s license was revoked and the substantial amount of operations with clients’ deposit accounts. The media wired yesterday that the bank has no plans to resume client operations till December 4.
