00:0011 сентября 199800:00
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00:0011 сентября 1998
The city and oblast branch of the RF Pensions Fund (PF) has publicly threatened the Industry and Construction Bank (PSB) with taking over its accounts. The PF decided to thus crack down on commercial banks delaying their clients' transfers to the Pensions
<BR>The city and oblast branch of the RF Pensions Fund (PF) has publicly threatened the Industry and Construction Bank (PSB) with taking over its accounts. The PF decided to thus crack down on commercial banks delaying their clients' transfers to the Pensions Fund. <BR>PF Manager Andrei Andreev told DP that the PSB has three times delayed insurance dues by one day. Such a delay is extremely harmful to the PF, as the PSB is the fund's largest source of income: 250m roubles each month, which makes up 60% of the total payments to the PF.<BR>Although the two sides made up the next day, bankers told DP off the record that Petrovsky bank had played a key role in the scandal.<BR>According to Andreeva, other banks have delayed, too. However, after warnings by the PF almost all hurried to explain their actions with respectable excuses and immediately transferred funds with interest. PSB also transferred its funds, but failed to effectively explain its delay. An angry PF took demonstrative steps: it distributed a press release threatening to close PSB transit accounts, and offered insurance payers to send their payments to PF's account at Petrovsky bank.<BR>According to DP's sources, a peaceful agreement was reached only after intensive negotiations between PSB and the PF. All the media who PF sent press releases received a request from the fund and the bank not to publish information about the scandal.
