HELSINKI, May 17 Moscow restricts banking services to the Finnish Embassy in as a response, the Russian diplomatic mission in Helsinki reported.
“We are talking about practical measures to bring the banking services of Finnish diplomatic missions in Russia in line with the situation in which the Russian embassy in Finland has been since autumn last year. We are left with the opportunity to use only one Nordea bank, while transferring any funds to the account of the a lengthy process of reviewing the permit is required, for which, in addition, a prohibitive commission of five thousand euros is charged, regardless of the amount of the transfer,” the embassy said. the practice will continue.
Now, on the basis of the principle of reciprocity, the Embassy of Finland in Moscow has been given the opportunity to use the services of VTB Bank to ensure current activities, this is in line with the norms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, the diplomatic mission concluded.
>Earlier today, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said that Moscow on April 27 notified Helsinki of the freezing of the embassy's accounts. According to the Foreign Minister, such actions cannot be regarded as a reaction to sanctions, Russia reported problems with payments, but banking operations, according to the Foreign Ministry, are going well.
In relations between Russia and Finland, the issue of arrest in Helsinki apartments used by the Russian Center for Science and Culture (RCSC). In mid-April, the RCSC received notices from the Finnish Bailiffs Service about the imposition of a ban on any actions with the administrative building of the center, a land plot, as well as several apartments. According to the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, we are talking about seven apartments with a total value of 1.4 million euros. Subsequently, the bailiffs removed restrictions on actions with the land and the building, but the situation with the apartments remained unsettled. On April 26, it was announced on Smolenskaya Square that if a solution is not found, Moscow will take retaliatory measures.