All Ukrainian depositors of ex-Soviet Sberbank will receive compensation - premier
KYIV. March 16 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has promised that all Ukrainian depositors of the former Sberbank of the USSR will receive compensations for their devalued deposits.
"I believe the people should trust the authorities regardless of their leaders. Therefore, this not so easy problem will be resolved, and injustice that was done at the fault of somebody else will be redressed," Azarov said at a parliamentary session on Friday.
The previous Ukrainian government started paying people compensations for devalued deposits in the Sberbank of the USSR in 2008, Azarov said. However, under the guise of these payments "24 billion hryvni was squandered," and Ukraine found itself absolutely unprepared for the global economic crisis, he said.
"As a result, 6 million people received this compensation and another 6 million didn't. Is it fair? I am sure it is not," he said.
Azarov urged the officials responsible for these payments to arrange them "clearly, understandably, without any lines and waiting lists and without having to collect excessive documents."
The government will attach particular significance to elderly people. "We will firmly control this," he said.