The entrepreneur said that he did not want to stay in the country with triumphant “servility”.
The creator of Tinkoff Bank, Oleg Tinkov, said that he was no longer a “traveler to the country.”
Quoting Griboyedov’s famous lines, the entrepreneur stressed that he was saying goodbye to Russia by publishing a post on a social network banned in the Russian Federation.
According to him, he built a business in the country without corruption and bribes, without inviting friends and acquaintances to his staff. But now “his country” “has slipped into archaic”, Tinkov said, stressing that in modern Russia, paternalism and servility rule the ball,
As Topnews wrote earlier, Tinkov will sell 35% of shares in TCS group to Vladimir Potanin’s Interros, the deal has been agreed by the Bank of Russia.
According to the new owner, the company is interested in Tinkoff’s leadership position in the banking market. Tinkov himself told Western media that he was forced to sell his share.
He expressed gratitude to Potanin that he bought out, albeit for “kopecks ” his share in the bank.
In addition, according to the businessman, he is withdrawing his Tinkoff and La Datcha brands from Russia.
Summing up the farewell post, the banker quoted Chatsky’s monologue, in which the very words about the rider sound.
“I’m going to look for a place where an offended feeling has a corner,” he summed up his attitude to Russia.
It is known that on April 23, Tinkov’s negotiations on the sale of a stake in Tinkoff Bank began.
The entrepreneur sold the Russian assets in full, saying that he did not want to depend on the current leadership of Russia.