Last year, I've founded the European Resilience Initiative Center, a charity aiming to improve understanding between Ukraine and Germany. Read this THREAD to learn how a French-German bank with a Russian investor undermined our goal to help Ukrainian civilians to survive in winter 2022/2023. 1/10
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A spoiler: no money was lost, and we have a new bank account, and you can donate without any problem:
PayPal:
www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
Bank:
IBAN: DE14 1204 0000 0462 1637 00
BIC: COBADEFFXXX
Bank name: Commerzbank
Recipient: European Resilience Initiative Center gGmbH. 2/10
It started in 11/2022, as I founded the European Resilience Center, and we have started our first charity campaign - purchasing power stations for Ukrainian IDPs, schools, hospitals. It was a full success - we brought power stations to devastated Izyum, and helped orphans to survive the winter. 3/10
Soon I got a message from our bank, Qonto. The bank wanted to know, why we receive payments, and what do we purchase at German stores. I answered immediately, the purchases were power stations for Ukrainian schools, IDP families, and hospitals, according to our charity goals. 4/10
Such inquiries from a bank is not something strange. A bank may ask a new client such questions to be sure everything is transparent, and no money laundering takes place. That's why I was not nervous. The weird thing started as the bank attacked our very charitable goal supporting Ukraine. 5/10
In the following communication, the bank FORBID us using our bank account, opened for our charity, to raise donations for Ukraine. They said "We sincerely hope, you can understand the potential risk which comes in this context and situation for our bank, our clients, and you". 6/10
I decided to act naive: "oh, what kind of risks?" and got another creepy message "I'm sorry that I must tell you, that I may not disclose any information regarding this case. I understand your frustration, but we act in your interests, to avoid further inconvinience for you". 7/10
Once again: as a Germany-registered charity we acted accordingly to our statute, using our bank account at a bank which advertised itself as one making charity campaigns comfortable. We raised money for CIVILIAN IDPs and schools. And than we got messages like in a cheap movie. 8/10
Of course, we did not stop raising donations. And the bank acted - they closed our bank account. No money was lost, but before we opened another bank account, many people (who do not have PayPal) could not send us money. So the harm was done to us. I started to making research 9/10
A Russian investor Yuri Milner participated in a capital of the bank. Was it the reason for the bank's actions? No idea. Still, the bank is a European company, and it's a scandal that it closed a bank account of a legit charity because of our support for Ukraine. 10/10
Anyway, we have our bank account at another bank, and anyone may donate this way!
IBAN: DE14 1204 0000 0462 1637 00
BIC: COBADEFFXXX
Bank name: Commerzbank
Recipient: European Resilience Initiative Center gGmbH
You may also donate via PayPal: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
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Those who did not like the fact that we support Ukraine closed our bank account, but we have a new one, and urge you to donate:
IBAN: DE14 1204 0000 0462 1637 00
BIC: COBADEFFXXX
Commerzbank
European Resilience Initiative Center gGmbH
Or via PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?host...
Last year, I've founded the European Resilience Initiative Center, a charity aiming to improve understanding between Ukraine and Germany. Read this THREAD to learn how a French-German bank with a Russian investor undermined our goal to help Ukrainian civilians to survive in winter 2022/2023. 1/10
Or via bank:
IBAN: DE14 1204 0000 0462 1637 00
BIC: COBADEFFXXX
Commerzbank
European Resilience Initiative Center gGmbH
Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
Bank:
Tierschutzverein Trier und Umgebung e.V.
IBAN: DE91 5855 0130 0000 1552 00
BIC: TRISDE55
4.345€ in bank
10.665€ to go 🚑🇺🇦
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Bank: Cool let's see a government ID and proof of residence
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