Thursday, April 28, 2016

The volume of withdrawals of funds in Russia in 2015 fell by a third – Interfax

Moscow. 26 April. INTERFAX.RU – The volume of cash withdrawal transactions of money in Russia in 2015 fell by a third and amounted to about 400 billion rubles, said deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Dmitry Skobelkin conference “Actual problems of execution of the credit organizations the requirements of the Russian legislation on AML / CFT”

“The scale withdrawals of funds in the previous period, according to our estimates, also declined by one-third, and we commend them to 400 billion rubles,” – said Skobelkin. He also said that according to the data of 2015 the balance of payments Russia, the volume of suspicious transactions is reduced.

“These data confirm that the total amount of transactions, associated primarily with border transfers, with the withdrawal of funds, decreased by more than five times and has made more than $ 1.5 billion amount is large, but it is not five, not eight and 26, who were a few years ago “, -. said the deputy chairman of the Central Bank

On. he estimates that reduced the number of banks involved in carrying out illegal operations. “If according to the third quarter of 2013, the number of credit institutions, which had a high level of involvement, the threshold of their value was around 120 for the quarter, then in 2014 it came to 30. In the fourth quarter of 2015. – Nine organizations were in the zone of our attention” – Skobelkin said

He said that, nevertheless, we must understand that “appropriate informal sector needs remain, and in some segments even increased.”. Sometimes the regulator sees new uses of old offenses mechanism. “In recent years we note the increase in the use of unfair participants of foreign economic activity for the withdrawal of funds abroad of old schemes, in particular the payment of services”, – said the deputy chairman of the Central Bank. He said that the Central Bank also sees the continued use of already known regulators areas – mass payment cards and electronic purses

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