The Commission to combat money laundering will appear in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the establishment of the Commission on the fight against money laundering. The full name of the new structure — the interagency Committee on adoption of the Russian Federation of measures on the results of the fourth round of mutual evaluations of the Group of development of financial measures of struggle against money-laundering (FATF). A decree on the establishment of the Commission published on the official portal of legal information.

Specifies that the Chairman of the Commission appointed by the Director of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin. The Commission included Deputy interior Minister Michal Vanichkin, Deputy Minister of justice Mikhail Galperin, the first Deputy head of the Federal customs service Ruslan Davydov, Deputy Minister Oleg Pak and others. The regulations of the Commission and the action plan will be approved within three months.