It said that more than two thousand people in 25 foreign countries received a total of 2.2 million euros in compensation, including material assistance.
In 2004, the fund and the bank began paying out material assistance to legal successors of the recipients. All in all, by way of inheritance, financial aid was received by 15,000 people to a total sum of 11 million euros, the press-service said.
Payouts are being made in more than seven thousand Sberbank affiliates, and assistance sums are issued to citizens free of turn and without charging any commission.
"Payouts are expected to be completed ahead of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, but the right to get them will be retained by lawful recipients until September 30, 2006," says the release.
Sberbank has been paying aid to citizens who have suffered from Nazism during the Second World War since August 2001. Initially, payments were made from the German fund "Memory, Responsibility and Future" jointly with the federal state institution "Fund of Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation". Since April 2002, payments have been made from the Austrian Fund "Reconciliation, Peace and Cooperation", the press-release specifies.
