At the same time, Brussels prepares a delegation to express his concern to Turkish officials. "We will very clearly signal that, for example, third countries' financial institutions should not connect to the payment network of measures, because, as you know, this is due to some risks of evasion of sanctions," one of the interlocutors of the publication said . Turkey's pressure emerged as Western countries have switched from the imposition of new sanctions to strengthen the current restrictions.
"We need to close the loopholes," said another FT interlocutor. In total, five large Turkish banks are connected to the Russian payment system - Vakıfbank, Ziraat Bank, İ̇̇ Bank, Denizbank and Halkbank. Two of them, a private bank Denizbank, owned by the UAE and Halkbank controlled by the state, connected to the system of measures after the start of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.
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