By summer 1996, major packages of shares in some of Russia's largest firms had been transferred to a small number of major banks, thus allowing a handful of powerful banks to acquire substantial ownership shares over major firms at shockingly low prices.
1996年夏までにロシア最大の企業の一部の主要なシェアが僅かな主要な銀行に移管し、従って少数の有力銀行に極端に安い金額で主要企業に対する実質的な所有をさせた。