We are talking about the Bank of Georgia, there are nuances.
Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians and Georgians began to complain about the closure of accounts in the Bank of Georgia, one of the largest credit institutions in Georgia. Information about this was published by the Kommersant publication, citing several interviewed bank customers.
Customers surveyed by Kommersant began to receive SMS notifications that the bank was forced to take such a step based on its decision and internal policy. Account holders are ordered to withdraw all the money available there within five days. Not only the accounts of Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians who moved to Georgia in 2022, but also those who have been living in the country for a long time, began to be blocked.
For example, one of the interlocutors of Kommersant said that he moved from Russia almost five months ago and opened a business for the construction of private houses. He also received a message from the Bank of Georgia – from the official number and in the form of SMS. The notice said that the account was being closed, and within five days all the money should be withdrawn from there.
The mentioned credit institution of Georgia is in no hurry to disclose all the details and comments on this matter, at least 160 cases of blocking are now known. Moreover, it has not yet been possible to find some general blocking criterion – it “hits” everyone in a row. And those who made payments in cryptocurrency, and those who ignored such payment methods. Under the ban from the bank, both people who opened an account recently and customers with a four-year history fell.
An official representative of the Bank of Georgia, in a conversation with Kommersant, fully confirmed the information about the closure of some accounts, but made it clear that the changes affected only a certain category of customers, regardless of their citizenship. The bank declined to give specific reasons for this decision.
Here it should be noted that according to the instructions of the Central Bank of Georgia, the country’s credit institutions are not required to explain the reason for closing accounts. Tbilisi believes that it is necessary to see who owns the Bank of Georgia, since the positions of Western shareholders are very strong there.
Almost all publications that wrote today about blocking the accounts of Bank of Georgia clients emphasized that this organization is the most loyal of all Georgian banks to money transfer systems from the Russian Federation, including the popular Golden Crown. Also, it does not oblige to convert dollar transfers into lari.
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Another interlocutor of Kommersant said that the procedure for opening an account in a Georgian bank has always been difficult: “We fought for a card for an individual for several months and eventually opened an account for my wife in not the best bank – Credo Bank. As far as I know, chaos reigns in Georgia to a certain extent, that is, everything depends on the specific manager who will look at your application, and it is not clear by what criterion he makes a decision. It costs 50 lari. They are not refundable if the account opening is not approved. You will have to spend several hours in a credit institution, and you need to go there more than once. In a Georgian bank one day you will definitely not be accepted for some unknown reason.
