Please note that the correct wording of para 12 is that NLB paid into the national budget through dividends, taxes and the money from privatisation around EUR 2.4 billion since the start of 2011, while it received EUR 3.78 billion in state aid as part of the bailout between 2011 and 2013.

Ljubljana, 23 February - The group around the Ljubljana-based NLB bank posted a net profit of EUR 447 million last year, which is 89% more than in the year before. The bank noted in the report released on Thursday that the acquisition of N Banka, previously the Russian Sberbank, last March had significantly contributed to the record bottom line.