NBB's Ex-President: National Bank Should Investigate Situation Around Credexbank
23.05.2012 / 16:55
“It’s extremely difficult to prove the accusations.”
Ex-head of the National Bank of Belarus Stanislau Bahdankievich, commenting on the situation with Belarusian Credexbank, which caused the U.S. Treasury’s suspicion of money laundering, said it’s extremely difficult to prove the accusations and stressed the need for investigation. According to him, the investigation shall be held by the National Bank, as it’s responsible for the rule of law in the banking sector.
“We obey the worldwide laws in the banking sector: we have laws to prevent illegal transactions, money laundering,” said Mr. Bahdankievich.
The former head of the National Bank suggests that suspicions might have been triggered by the companies carrying out these operations.
“The mentioned banks, in my opinion, do not even have accounts in the United States. Clearly, the international cross-sectional structures track single-step movement of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars,” he noted.
According to the Head of Information — spokesman of the National Bank Aliaksandr Cimashenka, the agency is studying the situation with the statement of the U.S. Treasury regarding Credexbank, BelaPAN. Currently, NBB has no comments, stated Mr. Cimashenka.
Credexbank CEO Aliaksandr Aksienievich says that charges of the U.S. Treasury against the bank, called in America a “key center of global money-laundering,” are a total surprise for the bank. “This is nonsense. Now we are trying to establish contacts with the U.S. Treasury to make it deny the implausible data, to put it mildly,” he said, reports the Belarusian office of RFE/RL.
As it was reported before, Credexbank was listed a an institution of “primary money-laundering concern” by the USA.