Russia's money laundering watchdog monitoring crypto to ruble transactions
Rosfinmonitoring has informed the Russian parliament that it is paying close attention to transactions involving the conversion of crypto to rubles. Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service, or Rosfinmonitoring — the country’s Anti-Money Laundering body — is policing crypto to fiat transactions.The federal executive body responsible for AML oversight made this known while addressing the members of parliament on Tuesday, according to a report by Russian news agency Regnum.In a meeting with members of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Herman Neglyad, deputy chief of....
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