Suspicious operations in taking money out of country around 1.5 trln rubles annually

The scale of operations involving taking money out of Russia that banks say are suspicious amounts to around 1.5 trillion rubles a year, Rosfinmonitoring chief Yury Chikhanchin said Tuesday.

"If we are talking about what goes abroad, then banks reveal about one and a half trillion rubles per year. They think that this is [by means] of shady dealings. But I want to say that a great part of these funds return," Chikhanchin told the press.

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