French banks are threatening to close the accounts of the Rachmaninoff Institute in Paris due to transfers to teachers with Russian surnames

French banks are trying to block the accounts of the Rachmaninov Institute in Paris and its employees.

Pressure from French financial institutions is associated with transfers of money to teachers with Russian surnames.

The director of the institute, Arnaud Frille, called the situation absurd and noted that teachers from Russia have been working at the institute for 10–15 years.

PARIS, Oct 2 - RIA Novosti. French banks are trying to block the accounts of the Rachmaninoff Institute in Paris and its employees due to the fact that the educational institution transfers money to teachers with Russian surnames, its director Arnaud Frille told RIA Novosti.

According to him, he constantly faces this kind of pressure from French financial institutions. This applies to both the accounts of the institute itself and its employees.

“Banks regularly threaten to close accounts because we transfer money monthly to teachers with Russian surnames. The banks believe that this is how we “support the war effort.” Every month they demand an explanation for these transfers, and we have to repeat every time that these are teachers living in France. An absurd situation,” said Frille.

He noted that the last such case occurred a month ago, when they again tried to close the account.

“We have a huge number of teachers from Russia, we pay them, the bank sees transfers to accounts with Russian names and asks the question: why are we paying Russians? Complete absurdity, because these people have been working for us for 10-15 years. But the fact is that we are dealing with stupidity, and dangerous stupidity, since it can lead to closure. We are always under threat,” he added.