Duma mulls bill to nationalize overdue deposits, securities

MOSCOW, Nov 13 (PRIME) -- Deputies of the State Duma, Russian parliament’s lower chamber, are studying a proposal to nationalize the deposits unrequested in due time, Anatoly Aksakov, head of the financial market committee, told PRIME on Tuesday.

“The deputies are considering proposals to transfer unrequested deposits to the budget. This fate can also befall the money of nominal securities holders and those participants of joint-stock companies who are inactive and therefore do not receive dividends. The goal is to figure out things with these resources,” Aksakov said.

He added that the amount of such funds is estimated at billions of rubles.

He said that a few questions still remained here – whether to create a special fund to accumulate such money or not.

“It is quite possible that we will have to accumulate all this at accounts and only then decide what is to be done with it,” Aksakov said.

“There are the proposals, which are ready and calculated. We will deal with them seriously next year.”

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