Progress report 1

 

1. Drawing on the facts, assumptions and guesswork presented in my last but one post, I wrote and filed a report with the Procurator General of the Russian Federation about a suspected collusion at Alfa Bank. 

2. I have received final official responses to my submissions to the highest public authorities (the Presidential Executive Office and the CB of the RF). The overall result is exactly what was predicted on the banki.ru forum in this topic. The CB rejected my complaint without looking into it, and the Office passed my letter to the President on to the CB to be examined on the merits, and then simply wrote that it finds that everything was above board and that “unresolved disputes between banks and their customers are to be adjudicated pursuant to the laws of the Russian Federation”. Which is what I more or less expected. 

Yet here, too, a “wonderful discovery” ["oh, how many wonderful discoveries the spirit of enlightenment has in store for us!" from Eugene Onegin by A.S.Pushkin, as quoted in a comment on my post on the banki.ru forum] resulted from my letter to the President, when passed on to the CB.

In an apparent attempt to make up for the bad impression caused by its initial out-of-hand rejection of my complaint, this time around the CB made an enquiry with Alfa Bank and in its response to me quoted what it had been told by AB. And it is the latter information – overall upbeat in tone – that reveals a chink in Alfa Bank's armour and gives me leverage against it. As a result, my chances of a recredit are up from 20-30 to 60-70 per cent, as guesstimated by myself. Verily, as the Good Book says, “Seek, and ye shall find” (Matthew 7:7). As to what it all means, I'll tell you in my subsequent progress reports when I wrap my head around what it actually gives me [actually, the secret is already out, presented as item 17 in my last but one post]. #AlfaBankFraud


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