“Banks in China have strengthened checks on payments from India, the UAE and Hong Kong, trying to detect “Russian traces” in them.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
Banks in China have strengthened checks on payments from India, the UAE and Hong Kong, trying to detect “Russian traces” in them.
Representatives of Russian business said that making payments is becoming more and more difficult: credit organizations analyze shipping documents – to whom the goods are going, where and why. Before that, such enhanced checks were introduced for transfers through Turkey and the CIS countries, but now they have spread to other states.
The representative of Opora Russia in China, Ilona Gorsheneva-Dolunts, confirmed this, adding that banks demand that the goods be shipped to the country where the money came from. By strengthening control, organizations try to avoid secondary sanctions.
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However, there are still options for sending payments to China, Poroshyn says. So, for example, as before, there are direct transactions from regional Russian banks to Chinese banks. Payment is also made through Malaysia and Indonesia. Another scheme is direct payments through a branch of a Russian bank to China. However, for this you need to have open accounts with this financial organization. If they are, then the money reaches the supplier in two or three days, and the bank takes a fixed fee for the transfer of 4%.
Earlier it became known that Chinese banks started blocking accounts of Russian companies due to the fact that their legal addresses coincide with the addresses of organizations that are under sanctions.
Problems with payments from Russia began as early as 2022 due to sanctions for the war in Ukraine. From December 2023, banks from “friendly” countries began to additionally strengthen approaches to work with Russian companies due to the decree of the President of the United States, according to which foreign banks may be subject to restrictions for assisting in transactions with sanctioned persons from Russia and facilitating supplies to the Russian defense industry. In July 2024, the US strengthened sanctions, including all Russian sanctioned entities, including banks, in the definition of a military-industrial base.
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