National Bank: Belarusians withdraw billions from “Belarusbank” in order to put them in other banks

• 8.10.2010, 10:41

The National Bank disproves the outflow of ruble deposits from the bank system of the country.

The head of the Information Department – a spokesman of the National Bank Anatoly Drazdou informed PRIME-TASS agency commenting the statement of the Chairman of the Administration Board of Belarusbank Nadzeya Yarmakova about the fact that the outflow of ruble deposits caused by the information war between Belarus and Russia is recently observed in the Belarusian bank system.

“The National Bank states that there is no outflow of Ruble deposits in the Belarusian bank system. The outflow is observed only in Belarusbank and it is caused not by Russian-Belarusian information war, but by not quite successful marketing policy of the bank”, - Drazdou said.

“Simply speaking, other Belarusian banks offer citizens more profitable conditions of keeping ruble means on deposits”, - he added.

According to the words of the National Bank representative, referring to the results of January-September of the year of 2010, further increase of ruble deposits is awaited in the Belarus bank system.

Yarmakova stated that the outflow of deposits in the bank system makes up 5-7 bln BYR per day (1 USD – 2995 BYR).