The NBU requires income declaration from potential buyers of banks / Photo from UNIAN
"The more influential and known investors are, the more intentionally they evade this requirement. [They] express outrage," a spokesman for the central bank says.
Starting from this year the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has required that investors that want to acquire a bank submit a declaration of income and wealth, but such requirement is not observed by most of applicants, the head of the NBU's registration and licensing department Leonid Antonenko wrote on Facebook.
"The more influential and known investors are, the more intentionally they evade this requirement. [They] express outrage," Antonenko said.
The NBU's official drew a parallel between the acquisition of a bank and application for housing and utilities subsidies, which also requires that an applicant and his or her family members submit their income declarations. As proof, Antonenko also posted a list of the documents required for subsidies.
"I'm planning to post this list in the frame at the entrance of my office. So that the capitalists could share their outrage with low-income citizens," he added.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the Individual Deposit Guarantee Fund is currently withdrawing 48 insolvent banks from the market. Of them, 46 were designated as insolvent banks in 2014-2015.
The standard procedure of the withdrawal of a bank from the market suggests the search for investors for this bank. However, the Fund reported it had found the investor only for one bank, while 33 banks were undergoing the liquidation procedure and the remaining ones had gone into interim administration introduced by the Fund.