The Bank of Russia together with specialists from Rosfinmonitoring will do development of a platform that will allow tracking the exchange of cryptocurrencies through drops.
As stated by the head of the Financial Monitoring and Currency Control Service of the Central Bank, Bohdan Shablya, the platform will be needed to monitor suspicious transactions of individuals and exchange this information between credit institutions.
According to him, the initiative is aimed at stopping the activities of mules that provide their bank cards for illegal payments. The customers of mules are the largest online casinos, Russian and foreign crypto exchange services, as well as pirate resources.
Bogdan Shablya emphasized that nearly 10 million citizens of the country have recently made transfers to dropper cards. They are not criminals, but ordinary people, some of them buy cryptocurrencies, and some place bets in online casinos.
To date, the Bank of Russia has information on 700 mules that have been observed conducting suspicious transactions.
According to the regulator's position, the new platform will allow banks to coordinate efforts to block the activity of such clients and prohibit them from opening new accounts. Getting into the drop database may also be a reason for transferring information to law enforcement agencies. The exact start date of the platform is not reported, perhaps it will happen next year.
