Crimean bailiffs will not seize property on Ukrainian loans
Simferopol, February 20 (PolitNavigator, Semyon Dmitriev) – Employees of the Federal Bailiff Service for the Republic of Crimea have access to bank accounts of residents of the peninsula.
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This was stated at a press conference in Simferopol by the Deputy Head of the Crimean Office of the Federal Bailiff Service, Eduard Peters.
According to him, according to Russian law, bailiffs enter into agreements with all banks to gain access to accounts.
“That is, the bailiff makes electronic requests to these banks about the availability of the debtor’s account. If there is a debtor's account, information is received literally within two days. That is, an invoice immediately arrived, and a seizure was immediately placed on this account,” Peters explained.
He noted that a similar practice is used by bailiffs on the peninsula, but so far only on paper.
According to the head of the investigation organization department of the Federal Bailiff Service for Crimea, Dmitry Mamonov, today there are no restrictions that would not allow the bailiff to monitor the movement of funds in the debtor’s account.
“If a bailiff sent a document to execute debits of any funds from an account, to block this account, and contrary to this requirement the bank made a payment and or transfer of funds, for this officials of banking institutions may be subject to criminal prosecution responsibility,” he said.
Mamonov added that in relation to Crimeans who had debts to Ukrainian banks, bailiffs do not take any actions to collect debts, and for now they will not.
“In this situation, this issue is at the political and legislative level. We cannot take any action because there will be violations of civil rights by the FSSP. We have no international obligations to this state (Ukraine - PolitNavigator), he concluded.
Crimean bailiffs will not seize property for Ukrainian loans.