The lawyer warned about the risk of abolishing bank secrecy due to the linking of INN to accounts

The Central Bank's (CB) plans to link individuals' INN numbers to all bank accounts may lead to the abolition of banking secrecy. Alexander Khaminsky, a lawyer and head of the Law Enforcement Center in Moscow and the Moscow Region, told Gazeta about this on December 14.Ru».

"This will lead to total control of the Federal Tax Service over non-cash payments of citizens. Previously, access to financial information was formally possible only in exceptional cases. However, the laws have become more flexible, which actually changes the rules of the game. The official purpose of the innovation is to counteract intermediary droppers in transferring fraudsters' money. But the existing mechanisms for monitoring and blocking suspicious transactions are already working effectively, saving billions of rubles annually," the expert noted.

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