It became known about the trials of Boris Rotenberg with four Scandin …

It became known about the trials of Boris Rotenberg with four Scandinavian banks, which turned out to be between two fires.
On the one hand, there is a serious risk of becoming a violator of US sanctions, and on the other, violation of the rights of a citizen of Finland (Boris Rotenberg) for banking services and charges
In discrimination.

The journal “Internal Control in a credit institution” analyzes the decisions of the district court of the city of Helsinki, entrepreneur Boris Rotenberg is a citizen of Russia and Finland,
He constantly lives in Monaco.
Rotenberg brothers March 20, 2014
We got into the US SDN sanctions list on the grounds of the executive decree of Barack Obama No. 13661. After that, April 10, 2014, Finnish
Swedish department Svenska Handelsbanken AB closed Boris’s account
Rotenberg, although under the sanctions of the EU, he, unlike an older brother, is not
I got it. A complaint was filed against the decision to close the account
Banking supervision of Finland, which satisfied it and strongly recommended the bank to open a current account instead of previously closed. The bank obeyed and invited Rotenberg to open an account
to his Helsinsky office. He arrived from Monaco and went there
right after the meeting. The current account was opened on October 4, 2017.
In early January 2018, Rotenberg from his foreign account
transferred 60,000 euros to Handelsbanken to Handelsbanken, after which he started with it
Pay accumulated bills, including taxes and housing and communal services. However
Three other Scandinavian banks – Nordea Bank ABP, Danske Bank
and OP Yirityspankki Oyj – refused to credit payments from Rotenberg
to the accounts of their customers. In the same month, the plaintiff tried to translate
At your own expense in Handelsbanken another 150,000 euros. The bank “suspended” the second payment until the sender received explanations about cleanliness
these funds. The client provided explanations, but they did not satisfy the bank.

On October Fourth 2018, the entrepreneur challenged
Inaction of Handelsbanken and three other banks in court.
The plaintiff demanded to oblige banks to enroll his transfers and uninterruptedly provide banking services, compensate for losses and non -pecuniary damage.
The County Court of Helsinki on January 13, 2020 completely refused the lawsuit and ordered the plaintiff to compensate the defendants with 532,000 euros of legal costs and expenses for legal representatives.

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