According to Dmitry Tretyakov, his project involved the modernization of post offices at the expense of VTB Bank.

Earlier, according to the lawyer, the Finnish company Itella and the French La Poste were interested in such cooperation.

[3][4][5][6] On July 31, 2013, Kirill Dmitriev, who is the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), sent a letter to both his close friend Kirill Shamalov, who was the son-in-law of Vladimir Putin at the time, and Ksenia Yudaeva (Russian: Ксения Юдаева), who headed the expert directorate of the President of Russia at the time.

"[13] December 28, 2017: VTB24 sells two shares to Dmitry Rudenko, the chairman of the board of Post Bank (Russia).

July 31, 2014: VTB was added to the European Union sanctions list due to its role in the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.

[22][26][29][30][31] In November 2023 the Post Bank was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under E.O.

[36] In February 2022, VTB again sold two shares of Post Bank to its president, this time to Alexander Pakhomov.

[37] From December 2017 to October 2021, Post-Bank owned a majority stake of a 74.7% in the limited liability company Multicard, MultiCard, or MultiKarta (Russian: МультиКарта)[13] "Multicard" represents a wide range of high-tech services for companies of the banking industry: processing and personalization of plastic cards of all major international payment systems, ATM network service, cross-selling in online channels, geolocation, and many other solutions.

[13] Established in 1994 in Moscow, the limited liability company MultiCard (Russian: ООО «МультиКарта») received certification in the late 1990s as a third party payment system to interact with the international payment systems of Visa, Europay International, MasterCard, American Express, and Diners Club.

[38] In October 2014, Multicard met the requirements for the federal law #161-fz dated June 27, 2011, "On the National Payment System".