The transaction on sale of the Ukrainian subsidiary of Russian Sberbank fell through Lipetsk Roshen factory, Strana reports.

According to journalists, the Sberbank’s negotiable sales price was $680 mln, but the Ukrainian party attempted to make it the part of the sale transaction of Lipetsk Roshen factory.

The interlocutor of the edition states that the negotiations on the sale of Sberbank were activated in December, after ICU’s Managing Director Makar Paseniuk and Businessman Igor Voronov joined them from the Ukrainian side.

According to other source, DCH Group President and UkrSibbank’s former co-owner Alexander Yaroslavsky is the beneficiary. ICU Investment Group advises Roshen on the purchase and sale of assets; in 2007-2014, the current governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva headed its management board.

“$680 mln were initially offered, but after announcing the price of $250 mln for LCF with actual price of not more than $120-140 mln, the negotiations lost its point for the Russian party”, the source noted.

The transaction was blocked at the presidential level, the journalists state. Sberbank declined to comment.

“The collapse of the deal on LCF served as the catalyzer for imposition of sanctions against Russian state banks by Ukrainian authorities”, the source of the edition in the government supposes. The sanctions were imposed on March 16 against five subsidiaries of Russian bank in Ukraine.

Paseniuk also conducted the negotiations on Ukrainian subsidiaries of the Russian bank VTB, according to the sources. VTB Group wanted to obtain about $200 mln for VTB (Ukraine), but the loan portfolio is “non-performing” (according to Commersant, it is assessed at USD 3.5 billion).

According to other interlocutor, currently, the assets of Ukrainian VTB is assessed at $50 mln. VTB declined to comment.

Two or three potential buyers are interested in purchasing VEB bank, including the Hungarian bank OTP. According to journalists, Head of the Boxing Federation of Kyiv Region Sergei Tron and Businessman Valery Khoroshkovsky are also interested in purchasing the bank. VEB declined to comment.

As Strana reported, NBU Deputy Governor Ekaterina Rozhkova announced that all Ukrainian banks with Russian state capital conduct the sales negotiations.