{"id":96725,"date":"2016-04-07T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2016\/04\/07\/244444\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:23:01","slug":"vtb-bank-armenia-denies-allegations-it-collects-intelligence-for-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2016\/04\/07\/96725\/","title":{"rendered":"VTB bank (Armenia) denies allegations it collects intelligence for Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 7. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The Yerevan-based VTB Bank (Armenia) described\u00a0 reports in some news media outlets alleging that it was collecting intelligence for Azerbaijan as\u00a0 &#8216;a lie,&#8217; that denigrates\u00a0 the reputation of the bank and misleads Armenian residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The authors of these insinuations shamelessly used a dramatic moment in the political life of Armenia, capitalizing on the sincere feelings of the Armenian people,&#8221; the bank said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allegations by dubious portals that VTB Bank (Armenia), which is a 100% subsidiary of Russian VTB, whose 3%\u00a0 is owned by Oil Fund of Azerbaijan, is causing harm to Armenia and serves as intelligence gathering center in favor of Azerbaijan are stupidity and nothing else,&#8221;\u00a0 the statement says.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, these blatant allegations misleading\u00a0\u00a0 Armenians also threaten the financial stability of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If these allegations, damaging the business reputation of VTB Bank (Armenia) and misleading the\u00a0 citizens of Armenia continue, we reserve the right to take the necessary legal measures, including prosecution,\u00a0 to protect our\u00a0 rights, interests and the reputation,&#8217; it says.<\/p>\n<p>VTB Bank (Armenia) runs 67 branches in Armenia. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yerevan-based VTB Bank (Armenia) described  reports in some news media outlets alleging that it was collecting intelligence for Azerbaijan as  &#8216;a lie,&#8217; that denigrates  the reputation of the bank and misleads Armenian residents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[14159,13866,15826],"class_list":{"0":"post-96725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-allegation","10":"tag-azerbaijan","11":"tag-vtb-bank-armenia-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}