Russian Investigative Committee proposes incorporating virtual assets into anti-money laundering system
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Russia’s Investigative Committee proposed integrating crypto assets into the country’s anti-money-laundering framework so investigators can trace transactions and obtain evidence for criminal cases. Anna Starzhinskaya, a department head in the committee’s main investigative directorate, presented the proposal at the 20th Asset Recovery Working Group meeting under the UN Convention against Corruption in Vienna, as reported by TASS via Foresight News. The committee wants investigators to use dedicated data from Rosfinmonitoring, Russia’s financial intelligence unit, to track crypto flows and substantiate criminal activity. The move signals Russia’s push to bring crypto under formal AML oversight rather than treat it as a separate domain. What to watch next is whether the proposal translates into legislative amendments and how Rosfinmonitoring’s tracing data is shared with law enforcement.
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Russian Investigative Committee, Anna Starzhinskaya, Rosfinmonitoring, UN Convention against Corruption, Vienna