14 Apr 2016 17:16

VTB not planning to return to Crimea - exec

YALTA. April 14 (Interfax) - VTB Bank is not planning to return to Crimea, Mikhail Oseyevsky, VTB deputy president and deputy chairman of the management board, said at an international economic forum held in Yalta, Crimea on Thursday.

"Our shareholders have not yet given us such a task," he said.

The banker said that VTB was present on the peninsula when it was Ukrainian, but after its reunification with Russia, it handed over its branch network to Russian National Commercial Bank (RNCB).