OREANDA-NEWS. The Public Relations Center of the State Corporation “Deposit Insurance Agency” (DIA) informs that since December 4, 2013 almost 38 percent of insured depositors of the Master Bank have received deposit insurance payments.

“During the first four days of payouts about 55 thousand depositors of the Master Bank visited offices of the Sberbank and the VTB 24. They were paid about 18 billion rubles which is about 58 percent of the total amount of insured deposits in the bank that are covered by the DIA", - said Deputy General Director Andrey Melnikov.

The deposit insurance payouts will continue till December 4, 2014 in the offices of the Sberbank of Russia and the VTB 24. After this date deposit insurance will be paid out either by the agent banks or by the DIA itself. Depositors will be informed about this in due course.