As Dmitry Teplitsky, director of the Sberbank collection agency ABK, said on the sidelines of the Leaders of Digital Development forum, the practice of collecting cryptocurrencies is now being fully developed. According to him, the agency is now working on one case, in which the debtor obtained loans from individuals for 5 billion rubles and bought cryptocurrencies with this money.
“We did an analysis of digital assets in our portfolio, looked at digital assets – this is crypto, etc. On average, 5-7% of our portfolio consists of digital assets. No one will officially confirm these figures, but according to robot surveys, this is the figure,” said Teplitsky.
As for the large case worth 5 billion rubles, Teplitsky admitted that now the collectors are trying to “reach out” and evaluate the debtor’s digital assets. According to him, this is a new practice for the agency, so you have to get used to it “on the fly.”
According to the Russian Ministry of Finance, there are at least 13 million cryptocurrency owners in Russia, of which 1 million are active users.
Source: Bits
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