The corresponding permission was given to Kazakh banks in OFAC.
The office of the US Treasury Department (OFAC) has given permission to banks in Kazakhstan to work with cards “Mir ”.
This is reported on the website of the Kazakhstan regulatory agency.
According to experts, the department in the SSH stated that it does not object to the use of the cards by private individuals who emigrated from Russia.
The purpose of using these cards is to indicate operations for life support.
The Kazakh ministry noted that the country’s banks can accept payments and transfers, as well as issue cash at ATMs of payment cards, but transactions with Russian cards of this system will remain under special control of the United States to prevent circumvention of sanctions.
Earlier, topNews wrote that the American Bloomberg agency stated that the system “Mir” had failed.
Journalists summed up the effect of sanctions on the Russian payment system.