There is no money, but you hold on: the authorities “threw away” Ukrainian business by freezing money in the accounts of legal entities in Privatbank

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and his nominees, the head of the NBU Valeria Gontareva and the Minister of Finance Alexander Danylyuk, “threw away” Ukrainian businessmen, breaking their promises made when announcing the nationalization of Privatbank.

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This was stated by the editor-in-chief of the authoritative Kyiv publication “Strana” Igor Guzhva, commenting on the decision to freeze funds in the accounts of legal entities in Privatbank.

“When they announced the “deal of the century” for Privatbank, I intuitively felt that there would be a “kid”. It was just not clear where and when. This morning everything fell into place. Remember the promises of all the officials that transactions on the accounts of legal entities were stopped for just one day and everything would resume on December 20? So here it is. That did not happen. All funds of entrepreneurs that were in their accounts as of the morning of December 19 were frozen. Or, if you want, “temporarily confiscated” - Guzhva wrote on his social network page.

“And why did you lie so brazenly to all these Gontarevs and Danilyuks? I think with such approaches, the future of Privatbank is completely predictable,” summarized the editor-in-chief of “Strana”.

Let us remind you that today Ukrainian entrepreneurs-clients of Privatbank discovered a message in their online services “Privat24 for Business” that the balances in their accounts were frozen.

The message states that all expenditure transactions will be carried out only using funds received into the account after the morning of December 19. Any balance in the account as of the morning of December 19 is frozen indefinitely.

The bank's statement notes that this is a temporary measure to serve corporate clients, but does not provide an exact time frame for lifting these restrictions.