Greece bans financial transfers from, and to skopje

[Angelo]

Greece bans financial transfers from, and to skopje
Greece has banned the transfer of money from, and to skopje. Blocked are all funds from Western Union and the Greek National Bank.

SKOPJE citizens who at the moment are in Greece can't receive money from Skopje, nor send money to SKOPJE.


"This morning I wanted to transfer some funds to Skopje via Western Union. Actually, their Western Union is the same as Skopje Postal Services, except here they are Greek Postal services, they are official." says Ivan Ivanov, Skopje citizen in Greece.

"I was told that since yesterday, all bank transactions with Skopje are forbidden. Of course, they didn't say skopje. After that I went to Nacional Trapeza, then in Greek National Bank, I got the same response." concluded Ivanov.

Western Union in Skopje acknowledged the problem, and the complaints they received in the past two days. It alarmed their headquarters in Ireland.

Western Union's Director Marku says, Greece will face a substantial financial punishment for breaking the rules under which Western Union operates.

According to Marku, the problems were the documents that people fill out where it must be noted the name of the country where funds are sent to or received from.

Western Union clients worldwide use Macedonia on the forms. This bothered Greece so the financial transactions were cut.

So far skopje has not responded to any of the Greek provocations

Confiscating Skopje lamb
Barring overflights of Skopje Airlines
Mistreating Skopje citizens at border crossings
Barring Financial transactions

[Angelo]

Theirs a link to the artical but i decided not to post it

[Napalm]

Good, starve them out financially. The snowball effect has started to take place, first NATO, then the Plane ban, now the financial ban! That's awesome. Those skops who post anti-greek propaghanda on the web may not get their income now and have their electricity cut off as most skops get income from Greeks despite the fact they are anti-hellenic.

[half greek]

Very Good news. :s030:

[Prokomenos]

An economic blockade is a great tactic.