Rosfinmonitoring announced its rejection of the FATF revolution – RBC
The attempt turned out to be fruitless, as Russia warned that such a move could upset the balance in the global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing network, said the head of the department, Yuri Chikhanchin.
Yuri Chikhanchin
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Russia took part in the Financial Action Group on Money Laundering (FATF), but without success. About it informed Federal Service Yuri Chikhanchin at a meeting of the CIS Financial Intelligence Department.
In response, representatives of Rosfinmonitoring warned “about the risk of imbalance in the global network to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism (AML / CFT)”, and the FATF abandoned this intention, follows from the statement of the service.
Who exactly undertook this department, did not specify. Earlier, with such a proposal of Ukraine, Dmitry Kuleba headed the Foreign Ministry.
However, Russia due to exclusively The Council of Europe for the Evaluation of Measures against Money Laundering (MONEYVAL), the FATF Regional Regulatory Group, said the agency. Its task is to disseminate the policy of the international field of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism in European countries.
FATF criticized the Central Bank for rare anti-money laundering checks of banks