FCS said the illegal withdrawal from Russia of $1.6 billion since the beginning of the year
FCS said the illegal withdrawal from Russia of $1.6 billion since the beginning of the year The Federal customs service (FCS) from January to September of 2017, revealed the illegal transfer abroad of $1.6 billion, told RNS the head of Department of trading restrictions, currency and export control of FCS Sergey Shklyaev on the sidelines of the exhibition “Customs service-2017”. “1.6 billion dollars is the amount of down payments without execution of mutual obligations, that is, it is our assessment that (translated from Russia. — RNS) more than 1 billion US dollars illegally for the first 9 months of 2017. But if we’re talking last year, this sum amounted to 2 billion in 2015, it was 2.5 billion, in 2013 — 6.5 billion U.S. dollars,” said Shklyaev. He noted that the decline in volume of illegally taken cash from Russia is due to the interaction of the FCS and the