Interfax: Usmanov and Skoch no longer own Round bank – Rosbalt

Bank “Round” on March 18 changed its owner. 100% of the shares of the credit institution were transferred to Irina Lupicheva. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

Prior to this, as the publication clarifies, Round Bank belonged to ASK Renaissance LLC, 49% and 30% of which, through Round East Holdings Ltd. and USM Investments Ltd. owned by Alisher Usmanov and 30% by Vladimir Skoch.

Lupicheva worked in senior positions in companies that later became part of USM Holdings.

The United States, the EU and the UK imposed sanctions against Usmanov in March, Interfax recalls, and the restrictions of a number of states also affected Vladimir Skoch, the son of Usmanov’s longtime partner Andrey Skoch.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the actions of the West in relation to Russian business, the confiscation of property, the arrest of their aircraft and other property can be called banditry at the state level. He clarified that many of Russia’s leading entrepreneurs are essentially international, because their companies operate all over the world and have an international status. “Therefore, of course, what the collective West is doing against them cannot be called banditry at the state level,” Peskov added.

Earlier, US President Joe Biden said that the US Department of Justice would form a special task force to “investigate the crimes of Russian oligarchs.” He assured that the US authorities are joining forces with European allies to “take back your yachts, your luxury housing, your private jets.”