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and practices in Russia28.12.2018
Criminal cases on the repatriation of funds and illegal currency transactions on forged documents
At the Ural Customs, the number of currency fraud cases has increased sevenfold
In 2018 there was a significant increase in the number of criminal cases related to the violation of currency legislation. As reported by the RBC Yekaterinburg in the Ural Customs Administration, if in 2017 there were three criminal cases opened, in 2018 there were 23 of them - this is a quarter of the total number of all initiated cases
Ten cases are associated with the evasion of the obligation to repatriate funds for goods transferred to non-residents (Art. 193 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and 12 cases concern illegal currency transactions that companies tried to use with forged documents.
The amount of sums that appear in cases also increased: the damage to Russian companies that sent goods abroad and who did not receive payment exceeded 1.1 billion rubles. (last year - 100 million rubles). The size of illegally withdrawn currency was 1.3 billion rubles (in 2017 - 390 million rubles).
RBC, tks.ru, 27 December 2018 | 
