{"id":1275610,"date":"2025-08-04T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russian-companies-in-the-uae-are-massively-restricting-financial-transactions-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:30:56","slug":"russian-companies-in-the-uae-are-massively-restricting-financial-transactions-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russian-companies-in-the-uae-are-massively-restricting-financial-transactions-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian companies in the UAE are massively restricting financial transactions \u2013 intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In July 2025, banks in the United Arab Emirates tightened control over the activities of Russian companies. About a third of Russian companies had their operations restricted or their accounts closed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/szru.gov.ua\/news-media\/news\/oae-vidmezhovuyutsya-vid-rf-banky-chystyat-kliientsku-bazu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by the Foreign Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The main reasons for their closure were the lack or untimely response to banks&#8217; requests, errors in documents, inconsistency of financial flows with the declared activities, connections with countries from the FATF &#8220;blacklist&#8221; (the Financial Action Task Force &#8211; ed.) or with persons\/structures subject to international sanctions, etc.,&#8221; the intelligence service reported.<\/p>\n<p> Checks of Russian accounts in UAE banks began in February 2024, after the UK imposed sanctions against companies from the United Arab Emirates that helped circumvent sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p> After the adoption of the 18th package of sanctions, inspections and restrictions on Russian banks in the UAE increased.<\/p>\n<p> Emirati financial institutions do not want to be put on the FATF &#8220;gray list&#8221; again because of the Russian Federation, so they are showing their willingness to comply with the sanctions regime.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/finansova-kryza-ta-sanktsii-b-iut-po-rosatomu-kompaniia-vzhe-zvernulas-za-dotatsiiamy\/\">the Russian nuclear industry is rapidly deteriorating.<\/a> The flagship of the Russian economy, Rosatom, which operates 11 nuclear power plants and generates 20% of electricity in the Russian Federation, has appealed to the state.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiyski-avtodylery-zaznaiut-zbytkiv-avtosalony-masovo-znykaiut-z-rynku\/\">up to 20% of car dealerships in Russia may close by the end of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/chotyrydenka-zboi-sklady-pid-zav-iazku-avtoprom-rf-letyt-u-prirvu\/\">Russia&#8217;s largest automaker AvtoVAZ has suspended production from July 29 to August 11 inclusive<\/a> . The official reason is &#8220;corporate vacation,&#8221; but in reality the decision is related to a critical situation on the market: the company&#8217;s warehouses are overflowing with unsold cars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2025, banks in the United Arab Emirates tightened control over the activities of Russian companies. About a third of Russian companies had their operations restricted or their accounts closed. This was reported by the Foreign Intelligence Service. &#8220;The main reasons for their closure were the lack or untimely response to banks&#8217; requests, errors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1275597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76892,76870],"class_list":["post-1275610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-economy","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}