Illegal currency transactions were discovered by the staff of the Nizhny Novgorod customs
Two criminal cases in March 2020 was initiated by staff of the Nizhny Novgorod customs under paragraph “a” of part 3. article 193.1. The criminal code (“perform foreign exchange transactions for the remittance of funds in foreign currency or the currency of the Russian Federation to the accounts of non-residents using falsified documents in especially large size”) concerning two Nizhegorodtsev 1986
For the sake of financial gain, they transferred funds in foreign currency and RF currency totaling more than 110 million rubles to the Bank accounts of the foreign company. The Bank was provided knowingly false information as to the reasons, goals and purpose of the transfers made in especially large size.
Crimes were committed in 2015. In the first case, on behalf of a natural person registered as individual entrepreneur, the second – on behalf of the Director of one of large Nizhniy Novgorod companies, were open ruble and foreign currency accounts. The goal is the transfer of funds in one and the same company registered on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, respectively, more than 50 million rubles and 900 thousand dollars.
According to the contracts, the Kyrgyz company had to hold a complex of special types of (seismic) works in Kyrgyzstan for the Russian residents. However, according to the information received from the state law enforcement and regulatory authorities of the Kyrgyz Republic, work was not conducted at all.
Then it turned out that the main activity of a foreign company – “the work of cargo motor transport”. It has nothing to do with the conduct of a complex of special types of work. On this fact the competent authorities of the Kyrgyz Republic prosecuted. Cash received on account of non-residents, transit was transferred to the accounts of other foreign companies.
The transaction was only a basis for conducting illegal currency operations aimed at withdrawing funds from the Russian Federation without any security and the possibility of their return.
Help
In accordance with the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the Commission of foreign exchange transactions for the remittance of funds in foreign currency or the currency of the Russian Federation to the Bank accounts of one or more non-residents with the view of a credit institution, with the authority of an agent of currency control of documents related to the conduct of such transactions and containing knowingly false information as to the reasons, goals and purpose of the transfer, would constitute a crime, responsibility for which is stipulated by article 193.1 of the criminal code. Punishment provides imprisonment for the term from five till ten years with the penalty to one million rubles or the salary or other income condemned for the period till five years or without it.
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