Vedomosti: the central bank has discovered secret buyers of large amounts of money

As can be seen from the letter, the identity of these persons is not established: the customers, whose data appear in the banks' documents, stated that "they did not did not buy cash in these offices from the offices of these banks nor did they buy them, but not in such sums ". After viewing the video from bank branches, the regulator discovered that cashiers were pbading money to these customers in bank packages without recalculation.

According to the representative of the Central Bank, such transactions are intended to provide in cash illegal exchangers serving the informal sector of the economy. The regulator's letter specifies that persons whose unrecovered product is significant apply to the interchanges. In addition, such operations can be carried out for "corruption and other illegal purposes," the Central Bank estimates.

According to the source "Vedomosti", the final customers of the currency are: Wholesale companies and markets: they used to buy foreign currency from banks specialized in this type of operation, but in 2018, the Central Bank deprived them of their license. As a result, these companies now work as illegal exchangers and buy money from individuals through banks, often false or unconscious, the source added.

The implementation of suspicious transactions has been recorded in large and small banks, writes the Central Bank. The regulatory body does not disclose their names, but notes that it applies to them measures of influence. The Central Bank advises banks to update procedures to combat money laundering, in particular to refine the procedure for checking the origin of the funds of the clients. The regulator also states that banks have the right to deny the customer the execution of the transaction if it does not provide the necessary documents or if the bank questions the cleanliness of the transaction.

Representatives of Gazprombank, Rosselkhozbank, Alpha Bank, The credit banks of Moscow, Promsvyazbank, Unicredit, Raiffeisenbank, Rosbank and Sberbank have not commented on this information. The VTB representative told Vedomosti that the bank had not received a letter from the Central Bank.