The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to "unleash its fury" on a subsidiary bank of a Russian banking group, Director of the registration and licensing department at the NBU Leonid Antonenko wrote on his Facebook page.

"In the near future the fury of the regulator will be unleashed on the bank. Good-for-nothing shareholders will be fined the largest sum – up to 10% of the face value of shares bought by them and they will be deprived of the right to vote. The bank will be included in the black list and the smallest preferential treatment regime in all its relations with the regulator will be applied to it," Antonenko said.

He said that last week a notification was sent to the NBU from the subsidiary bank saying that the bank had been sold to a "football team" consisting of 11 members.

"The trick with the football team happened along with the active explanatory work of the NBU that the regulator plans to cease this malpractice, in which the rules are observed only by law-abiding western banking groups and they are not obligatory for cunning local businessmen," Antonenko said.

He added that the notification on the sale of the bank arrived when the NBU returned a package of documents on the acquisition of a large stake in the bank to the applicant, asking for it to be completed. The NBU subsequently asked for the beneficiaries of the bank to be disclosed.

As reported, as of early 2015 seven banks with Russian capital operated in Ukraine: Prominvestbank, Subsidiary Bank of Sberbank of Russia, Alfa-Bank, VTB Bank, BM Bank, Petrocommerce-Ukraine and Bank Trust.

A market source told Interfax-AFI that this issue concerns Petrocommerce-Ukraine bank.

Last week it became known that Russian Petrocommerce Bank, part of Otkritie Holding, withdrew from the shareholders of the Ukrainian bank. According to a report on the website of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market of Ukraine, the bank does not currently have shareholders who hold more than 10% of voting shares.

Otkritie Holding did not comment on the deal.

Petrocommerce-Ukraine bank (earlier Aviatechbank) was founded in 1996.

The bank ranked 92nd among 158 operating banks as of January 1, 2015, in terms of total assets, according to the NBU.