The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) published a new set up of rules for suspicious transactions, Russian finance publication RBC reported on Feb. 17. The update broadly categorizes whatever cryptocurrency-linked transaction every bit a potential money laundering run a risk.

The bank issued an update to directive 375-P, which lists all signs of suspicious activity that may be linked to coin laundering. This is the showtime such update since 2022, when the initial regulations were introduced.

The manual was adult in collaboration with the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring). A central banking company representative explained that this was washed to "add new schemes of conducting unusual operations, with consideration to the modern developments in financial markets."

The head of the primal bank had previously stated that the number of possible risk factors should be decreased. Like in other countries, if a banking concern or another fiscal service provider identifies certain transactions as suspicious, they may freeze the suspect'due south business relationship or close information technology downwards completely in severe cases.

Cryptocurrencies are a chance

Though the listing may have been consolidated, the regulators added a broad clause that considers whatsoever cryptocurrency-linked activity as a potential take chances.

Within the same framework, greenbacks operations crave several caveats to be considered equally suspicious. For case, if a physical person regularly cashes out most of the coin received from a legal entity.

For cryptocurrencies, any action that tin can be identified as buying or selling them will exist considered a money laundering risk. This generally involves deposits and withdrawals from known exchanges.

This motion comes every bit Russian legislators still keep making amendments  to the digital financial asset police force, which was proposed in early on 2022. The regulators' stance toward cryptocurrency seems to accept taken a turn for the worse recently, every bit nationwide bans on their apply for payment are being considered.