British banks may freeze the accounts of living in the kingdom of rich Russians

[DARPA]

UK banks check the legality of the income of their Russian customers and send them letters massively requirements. Bankers are asking the Russians to explain where and how their funds were obtained, which lie in the accounts in the Bank of England.
Residing in the United Kingdom rich Russians will soon not be able to even go for bread, writes "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". Against the background of anti-Russian sanctions UK banks require their Russian clients' explanations of the income derived from their accounts. "If convince financiers to the legality of income does not work, then the account will be frozen, with do not even need a court order.
"We ask you to explain how you have money, you have received these assets," - results in the publication of an excerpt of the letter.
Commented on the situation, "the Russian newspaper" the chairman of the committee on legal support business Russian Managers Association lawyer Vyacheslav Leontiev, noting that banks are not appropriated money. "However, it would be difficult to use them. No bank will agree to work with these funds, "- said Leontiev.
Until recently, European banks are not private accounts were frozen.
"If the client's response does not suit them, they just offered to terminate the contract," - said the expert in international tax planning Sergey Nazarkin, adding that in the case of blocking the bill raises the question of whether the British bank is ready to release these funds out of the country. And he release them can only by court order.
In a similar situation were those whose incomes were obtained by legal means, but they are in some way related to the companies and individuals from anti-Russian sanctions lists.
Earlier, the British government in the person of David Cameron has already proposed European leaders to consider the possibility of blocking Russia's access to the global exchange interbank financial messaging SWIFT. As conceived by Cameron, the exclusion from the system is not locked to large commercial transactions, but would create some difficulties for interstate banking.