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RT FRANCE: BLOCKED ACCOUNTS?
The boss of the Russian news channel RT France has accused the French bank Société Générale of having blocked the bank accounts of certain Russian employees in France.
“The Societe Generale bank has blocked the private accounts (on which are paid) the salaries of several of our Russian employees in France”, accused Xenia Fedorova, on her Telegram channel in Russian. “It’s real discrimination on the basis of nationality, France is hitting rock bottom again,” she said.
Accused of being instruments of Moscow “disinformation”, the Russian state media RT (acronym for Russia Today) and Sputnik, were banned from the EU after the start of the Russian offensive against Ukraine. The ban on their broadcasting on television and on the internet came into force on March 2. In addition, Russia has been targeted by a multitude of sanctions, particularly banking ones.
Société Générale stressed that it was not blocking “the accounts of its customers on the sole criterion of nationality” but that it had to carry out checks on some of them because of the sanctions.
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