Gazprombank sells its Armenian subsidiary Areximbank to investors from Armenia

YEREVAN, October 11. /ARKA/. Gazprombank has sold Areximbank, its Armenian subsidiary, which got under US sanctions in September, to a group of investors from Armenia, RIA Novosti reported on Monday referring to Gazprombank.

“Gazprombank has sold 100% of Areximbank’s shares to a group of investors from Armenia,” the bank’s press office says. “Along with that, Gazprombank continues participating in the implementation of a number investment projects in this republic [Armenia].”

It was reported earlier that on October 7 Gazprombank stopped running 100% of the Armenian-Russian Export-Import Bank.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions against a number of subsidiaries of Russia’s Gazprombank and other entities.

Areximbank stated then that the sanctions will have no impacts on clients and the bank’s work. –0—

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