Surgutneftegazbank’s internal rules not approved

UrBC, Moscow, March 11, 2011. Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service refused to approve of the internal rules of ZAO Surgutneftegazbank, OAO Olimp, an investment company, and OAO Severo-Invest, another investment and finance company based in Nizhnevartovsk; the refusal is aimed at counteracting money-laundering of criminal proceeds as well as at counteracting the financing of terrorist activity.