Deputy General Director of Rosfinmonitoring Paul Livadny
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TASS, August 22. An international group of development of financial measures of struggle against money-laundering (FATF) withdrew Russia from the list of countries being enhanced monitoring aimed at identifying shortcomings of the AML / CFT legislation. In an interview published Tuesday in the newspaper “Izvestia”, said the Deputy Director of Rosfinmonitoring Paul Livadny.
“After monitoring corrections of technical deficiencies in the legislation of States – members of the FATF identified including the criminalization of the financing of individuals (terrorists) without a connection to a specific terrorist act, the Russian Federation was recently removed from the FATF monitoring”, – said the interlocutor of the edition.