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Russia

Russia underwent FATF, MONEYVAL, and EAG evaluations in 2007-2008. Russian AML/CFT legislation is being constantly improved. Russia has adopted amendments to the basic AML/CFT Law to implement the requirements of Recommendation VI (politically exposed persons) and Special Recommendation VII (money transfers). Russia is currently preparing and implementing the required institutional measures in keeping with the mutual evaluation recommendations.

Financial Intelligence Unit – Federal Financial Monitoring Service

Overview

The Federal Financial Monitoring Service is a federal executive body aimed at combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism, and the coordinating activities of other federal executive bodies in this area.

Rosfinmonitoring became operational on February 1, 2002 after Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No.1263 "On the Authorized Agency for Combating Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime and Financing of Terrorism" was signed on November 1, 2001.

Goals and objectives

Rosfinmonitoring exercises the following powers:

• controls and supervises the process of the implementation of the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation on combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism by legal persons and individuals, bringing to responsibility those who have violated this legislation;
• manages the collection, processing and analysis of the data on operations (deals) with monetary funds or other assets, subject to control under the AML legislation;
• checks according to the AML legislation the submitted information on the relevant operations, in particular receives necessary clarifications on the submitted information;
• reveals the indications testifying that the relevant operation is linked with legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime or financing of terrorism;
• carries out control over operations (deals) with monetary funds or other assets in line with the AML legislation; 
• receives, in particular under requests from federal government bodies, bodies of the government of the Russian Federation subjects, local self-government bodies and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation information on issues attributed to the core competence of the Service (except for information on private life of citizens);
• secures appropriate regime of storage and protection of the received information representing state, service, bank, tax, commercial secret, secret of communication and other confidential information;
• creates uniform information system in the established field of activities;
• forms and maintains a federal database, as well as provides methodological unity and coordinated functioning of the relevant information systems;
• forms a list of organizations and physical persons involved in participation in extremist activity and introduces amendments to it;
• forwards the information to the law enforcement bodies in case there are sufficient grounds testifying that the transaction (deal) is linked to the established activity, as well as submits the appropriate information upon requests of the a.m. bodies in compliance with the federal laws; keeps account of the organizations performing operations (deals) with monetary funds or other assets in whose field of activities there are no supervisory bodies;
• issues, as per the federal laws, decisions on blocking operations with monetary funds or other assets;
• develops and carries out actions targeted at the prevention of infringements of the AML legislation;
• coordinates activities of the federal executive bodies in the established field of activities;
• interacts with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on issues of the established field of activities;
• sets up in the established procedure together with the other federal executive bodies interagency bodies aimed at consideration of the relevant issues;
• sets up consultative and expert bodies (councils, commissions, groups, boards) in the established field of activities;
• develops proposals on adoption of interagency plans and programs in the established field and makes reports on the implemented measures;
• represents the Russian Federation in international organizations on the relevant issues and participates in the activities of these organizations;
• interacts within the limits of the AML field with government bodies, organizations, officials and citizens of foreign states both in the Russian Federation and abroad;
• interacts in line with the international agreements of the Russian Federation with competent authorities of foreign states and carries out information exchange with them;
• prepares and forwards to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposals for identifying a list of countries (territories) non-participating in the international cooperation in the established field;
• participates in the development and implementation of programs of international cooperation, preparation and conclusion of international agreements of the Russian Federation, in particular interagency ones, on the relevant issues;
• studies international experience on the relevant issues and practice in the established field of activities;
• analyzes practice of application of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the sphere of combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism and forwards to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposals for improvement of the legislation;
• adopts within the limits of the competence as provided by the legislation of the Russian Federation decisions on undesirability of stay (residing) of a foreign citizen or a person without citizenship in the Russian Federation;
• enlists, in particular on a contractual basis, research and other organizations, as well as individual experts for carrying out analysis, development of programs of training, methodical materials, software and information support, creation of information systems in the sphere of financial monitoring under condition of observance of state and other secret protected by law.

Organization structure

Rosfinmonitoring Management

• Head of Rosfinmonitoring – Chikhanchin Yury Anatolyevich
• First Deputy Head – Korotkiy Yury Fedorovich
• Stats-secretary - Deputy Head – Varlamov Nikolay Nikolayevich
• Deputy Head – Klimenchenok Aleksander Semenovich
• Deputy Head – Skobelkin Dimitri Germanovich
• Deputy Head – Spiridonov Aleksander Mikhailovich

There 10 departments in Rosfinmonitoring. Each federal district of Russia has its own regional representation.