Visa and MasterCard payment cards are valid without any problem in Sevastopol – Mass media

There are accepted the payment cards processed in the Russian Federation. «General Bank» serves the places where Visa and MasterCard are used, last year this bank was got under penalties of the USA and EU. The bank managed to apply to Visa and MasterCard through the National Payment Card System that had begun working since coming year in Russia.

It was informed by Hromadske radio.

«We were succeed paying through wire transfer in a local bar «Ugol». The operation, by the way, was held the Austrian Bank – we processed the payment cards in its department. There came a message from the bank that the place of transaction is defined as Sevastopol», − told the tourists from Saint Petersbough to Hromadske Radio reporter.

To remind some facts, «GenBank», «Krayivestbank», «Verkhnepovolzhskiy» and SMB were put into the penalties’ list as the active working financial departments in Crimea, and Inresbank and Mosoblbank were affiliated with structures of brothers Boris and Arkadiy Rotthenberg who since 2014 have been putting under the personal penalties of the USA. The penalties were entered after Russian annexation of Crimea.

As «15 minutes» informed earlier, on December, 26, 2014, the international payment systems Visa and MasterCard took the decision to shut off the Russian banks working in Crimea from their services. As a result most Crimean citizens came across the problem of getting cash from their payment cards.