Rosfinmonitoring revealed in 2020 a new money cashing circuit using tax or customs payments. This is stated in the information bulletin of the department.
For this scheme, fictitious firms listed tax or customs payments for real companies, while getting cash. Such a mechanism was used by catering and trade enterprises, the report says. It is noted that the company most often used the company with a large cash circulation: trading networks, car dealerships and wholesale and retail markets.
The new scheme that appeared was not widespread, banks managed to configure monitoring systems to identify such operations, told Izvestia in Rosfinmonitoring. The Central Bank said that the volume of illegal cashing in the country was decreasing over the past years. They decreased from 110 billion rubles in 2019 to 78 billion rubles in the 2020th.
Last year, Russian banks also recorded attempts to laundering money under the guise of the fight against coronavirus pandemic through operations for the purchase of medical equipment, state support to the affected sectors and the population. Market participants found attempts to carry out dubious operations by 34 billion rubles.