The head of Sberbank German Gref admitted that part of the top managers left the bank due to sanctions, but the situation did not become critical and replacements were found. He reported this to reporters after the business breakfast “Sberblade” on the sidelines of PMEF.
“Among the departing there were people who left plannedly. And there is nothing unusual in this, we had prepared replacements in advance and they occurred. And some, of course, were connected with the fact that the bank fell under SDN saunctions, all members of the board They fell under them, and some of them decided that they want to leave the company. This decision of each person, nothing terrible happened, all of them are replaced – two positions temporarily, the rest – constantly. There is no criticality in this, ” – quotes the words of Gref TASS.
In May, it became known that the deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank Alexander Buriko and Sergey Maltsev, a member of the board of Natalya Alymova, as well as Sberbank senior vice president, head of Sbercib Andrei Shemetov leave Sber.
The United States in early April introduced blocking sanctions against Sberbank, which provide for freezing assets in the United States, as well as the ban on American citizens to carry out any operations with the bank. In addition, members of the bank’s board got into the SDN List (Specially Designated Nationals List). Some other countries, including Great Britain, introduced similar restrictions on Sberbank.