The head of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has signed a law that introduces fines for violating bans and restrictions on the provision of money transfer services to casinos and illegal online lotteries. The document is published on the official website of legal information.
For such violations, paying agents or telecom operators, including postal ones, are liable to a fine of 25% to 40% of the agreed payment amount, but not less than five million rubles, and their officials persons – from 100,000 to 500,000 rubles.
If the credit institution does not refuse to transfer or transfer money, including electronic money, to the client, or violates prohibited from concluding an agreement with him, or failing to take steps to terminate an already concluded agreement, his officials will also be fined from 100,000 to 500,000 rubles.
Earlier , the State Duma proposed to freeze the funds stolen by fraudsters . The Bank of Russia believes that the proposal requires serious study.
It was also reported that the Central Bank will strengthen control of bank transfers to combat fraudsters. Banks may consider suspicious transfers of more than 100,000 rubles per day and more than one million rubles per month.