Turkish Denizbank began to ask some of its Russian customers whether they have a residence permit (residence permit). TV channel is reporting this”RBC»It’s about intermediaries who help open cards to Russians.
We are talking about the mass sending of messages from the bank with a request to urgently provide documents confirming the existence of a residence permit, which is received by about a third of all Russian customers. Information on this newsletter is verified both in local thematic chats and by local intermediaries.
One of them, Sergei Ovsyannikov, explains that the head office of the Turkish bank does not explain why this data is collected. Ovsyannikov suggested that this may be due to Russians who do not live in Turkey planning to block accounts, citing insufficient balance sizes. The specific amount of the balance required to maintain the account is not specified.
Another intermediary, Elena Chernyshova, suggests that sending letters is associated with updating data in Denizbank, and blocking accounts can only affect inactive accounts, that is, accounts in which there is no movement of money or funds.
Before that, it was known which Russians owned the Turkish bank Deniz wrote the money.
Turkish exchangers before recommend Russians have a new way to convert funds into foreign currency.