FIDE bank account in Spanish Caixa Bank | Chessdom
The normal operation is resumed 11 months after the Swiss bank UBS closed the FIDE accounts due to then FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov being on the US sanctions list. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov refused to resign from the post to save FIDE the trouble, and even announced he would be running for re-election, famously with a fake American person on the ticket.
