Are Russians Avoiding Sanctions Through Uzbekistan?
Tourist companies in Russia Visa to Russians and They offer travel packages to Uzbekistan to get Mastercard cards
Tourist companies in Russia Visa to Russians and They offer travel packages to Uzbekistan to get Mastercard cards.
This was reported by RFE / RL’s Uzbek Service.
It is reported that, Moscow and Vedi Group tour company, which unites tour operators in Yekaterinburg, organizes three-day trips to Uzbekistan.
Russia is currently intervening in Ukraine according to The sanctions have made it impossible to obtain the cards in Russia.
An employee of Vedi Group said that, Kapitalbank issues such cards in Uzbekistan.
Here only for opening accounts Russia It is enough to present your passport:
“The trip cost 23,000 rubles (262 dollars) costs. This money as well as VISA and Mastercard account opening fee is also included. Accounts of Uzbekistan Capital bankopens in Our representative will be waiting for you there. He is you snowşılayavaq and will assist in the preparation of documents. One for you Russia you will need a passport. To open a card account, 80 thousand sums (7 thousand dollars) you have to pay. Payment is made in sums. The whole process takes an hour. “
Passports alone are not enough
From the central office of Kapitalbank in Tashkent to RFE / RL in this bank Russia Opening an account for citizens, Visa and or confirmed that Mastercard cards are available.
However banksaid a spokesman that, In this process, a Russian passport alone is not enough.
Permanent in Uzbekistan except passport and or a certificate of temporary residence is required.
According to the representative according to 80,000 sums must be paid to open an account. But in this account every month 500 dollarsis a must.
The United States issued a warning on March 25 that, A person who allows Russia to evade sanctions and to companies snowSanctions may also be imposed.
Of the President of the United States national security adviser Jake Sullivan he said that, The White House is associated with Russia physically and economic for full coverage of legal entities and may expand the scope of financial constraints:
“We have a variety of tools to enforce sanctions,” he said. One of them is to avoid sanctions in third countries and or a company that helps and is to put people on the sanctions list. ”