Apparently it's some law of nature: at tense moments for empires, the patricians start going wild and throwing parties (or, in the pre-information age, orgies).
So VTB, looking at the sanctions, the dollar exchange rate at 47 rubles, and the hole in its balance sheet, decided to mark the occasion. To play at the "last days of Rome."
Bloomberg does not say whether they recreated the ship scene from the film "Caligula." Most likely they did, if things got as far as people tearing off wigs. It was probably just part of the afterparty.
Let me remind you that the management of the state-owned bank VTB are people who have stolen absolutely everything. I won't even bother linking to my posts—I've written about their fraud so many times that I can't pick the best example.
And everything they didn't steal, they wrecked. The endless hole in its capital is covered either by constant injections from the state budget or by a fraudulent offer involving its Cypriot subsidiary bank.
They threw the party with a British singer.
Citizens, vote for our bill against illicit enrichment; we've included state-owned companies like VTB in it as well. When we pass it, sooner or later, we'll throw Kostin and his gang one hell of a party.
Tags
People