The Central Bank has launched a rehabilitation mechanism for citizens who mistakenly got into the database of "drops".

The Central Bank of Russia, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, launched a mechanism for the rehabilitation of clients whose accounts were blocked due to suspected fraudulent transactions with cryptocurrency. This was announced on December 11 by Vadim Uvarov, Director of the Central Bank's Information Security Department.

"Just recently, my colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and I launched a certain procedure of so-called rehabilitation. The mechanism concerns those persons who are involved in the sale and purchase of cryptocurrencies," TASS quoted Uvarov as saying.

According to the director, most of the clients whose data got into the blocking database are there reasonably, and most of the complaints to the Central Bank are not satisfied. The main category of those blocked is young people between the ages of 15 and 24. The rehabilitation mechanism allows citizens who consider themselves innocent of fraudulent transactions to contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs and resolve the issue in a pre-trial manner.

Uvarov noted that the Central Bank plans to "hone" this mechanism and "clean up" the database. The Bank of Russia receives up to 1,000 complaints about account blockages every day.

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What does this mean for the economy and will this money be returned to the banks?

Lamiya Mammadova, an expert at the RUDN University Faculty of Economics, said on November 27 that due to increased measures against fraudsters and the requirements of the Central Bank for operational risk management, banks began updating limits on cash withdrawals at ATMs. Now, in case of suspicious activity, the bank can limit the cash withdrawal to 50 thousand rubles.

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