Strasbourg, 11 July 2008 MONEYVAL (2008) 23 EUROPEAN COMMITTEE ON CRIME PROBLEMS (CDPC) COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON THE EVALUATION OF ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING MEASURES AND THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM (MONEYVAL) DETAILED ASSESSMENT REPORT on the RUSSIAN FEDERATION ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COMBATING THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM Adopted by the MONEYVAL Committee at its 27th Plenary Session Strasbourg, 7 - 11 July 2008 Memorandum prepared by the Secretariat Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs (DG-HL) All rights reserved. Reproduction is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged, save where otherwise stated. For any use for commercial purposes, no part of this publication may be translated, reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic (CD-Rom, Internet, etc) or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without prior permission in writing from the MONEYVAL Secretariat, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe (F-67075 Strasbourg or [email protected]). TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE - INFORMATION AND METHODOLOGY USED FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.......................................................................................................................5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY......................................................................................................................7 1. GENERAL ......................................................................................................................................15 1.1 General information on Russia ................................................................................................15 1.2 General Situation of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.....................................18 1.3 Overview of the Financial Sector and DNFBPs ......................................................................19 1.4 Overview of commercial laws and mechanisms governing legal persons and arrangements..25 1.5 Overview of strategy to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing ............................26 2. LEGAL SYSTEM AND RELATED INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES ........................................32 2.1 Criminalisation of Money Laundering (R.1 & 2) ....................................................................32 2.2 Criminalisation of Terrorist Financing (SR.II) ........................................................................40 2.3 Confiscation, freezing and seizing of proceeds of crime (R.3)................................................43 2.4 Freezing of funds used for terrorist financing (SR.III) ............................................................46 2.5 The Financial Intelligence Unit and its functions (R.26).........................................................53 2.6 Law enforcement, prosecution and other competent authorities œ the framework for the investigation and prosecution of offences, and for confiscation and freezing (R.27 & 28) ...............61 2.7 Cross Border Declaration or Disclosure (SR.IX).....................................................................69 3. PREVENTIVE MEASURES - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.....................................................75 3.1 Risk of money laundering or terrorist financing......................................................................75 3.2 Customer due diligence, including enhanced or reduced measures (R.5 to 8) ........................76 3.3 Third parties and introduced business (R.9) ............................................................................90 3.4 Financial institution secrecy or confidentiality (R.4)...............................................................91 3.5 Record keeping and wire transfer rules (R.10 & SR.VII)........................................................93 3.6 Monitoring of transactions and relationships (R.11 & 21) ......................................................99 3.7 Suspicious transaction reports and other reporting (R.13-14, 19, 25 & SR.IV) ....................102 3.8 Internal controls, compliance, audit and foreign branches (R.15 & 22) ................................108 3.9 Shell banks (R.18)..................................................................................................................114 3.10 The supervisory and oversight system œ competent authorities and SROs, Role, functions, duties and powers (including sanctions) (R.23, 29, 17 & 25)...........................................................114 3.11 Money or value transfer services (SR.VI)........................................................................129 4. PREVENTIVE MEASURES œ DESIGNATED NON-FINANCIAL BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS....................................................................................................................................131 4.1 Customer due diligence and record-keeping (R.12) (applying R.5, 6, 8 to 11 and 17) .........132 4.2 Suspicious transaction reporting (R.16) (applying R.13 to 15, 17 & 21) ..............................137 4.3 Regulation, supervision and monitoring (R.24-25)................................................................140 4.4 Other non-financial businesses and professions / Modern secure transaction techniques (R.20) ......................................................................................................................................145 5. LEGAL PERSONS AND ARRANGEMENTS & NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS..............146 5.1 Legal Persons œ Access to beneficial ownership and control information (R.33) .................146 5.2 Legal Arrangements œ Access to beneficial ownership and control information (R.34).......149 5.3 Non-profit organisations (SR.VIII)........................................................................................149 6. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION.........................................................153 6.1 National co-operation and co-ordination (R.31 & R.32) .......................................................153 6.2 The Conventions and UN Special Resolutions (R.35 & SR.I) ..............................................156 6.3 Mutual Legal Assistance (R.36-38, SR.V) ............................................................................157 6.4. Extradition (R.37, 39, SR.V) .................................................................................................162 6.5 Other Forms of International Co-operation (R.40 & SR.V) ..................................................165 7. OTHER ISSUES ...........................................................................................................................166 7.1 Resources and statistics..........................................................................................................166 TABLES ..............................................................................................................................................168 TABLE 1: RATINGS OF COMPLIANCE WITH FATF RECOMMENDATIONS..........................168 TABLE 2: RECOMMENDED ACTION PLAN TO IMPROVE THE AML/CFT SYSTEM ............176 ANNEXES ...........................................................................................................................................184 ANNEX 1: ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .........................................................................184 ANNEX 2 - LIST OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR BODIES INTERVIEWED (FOR EACH PLACE IN ALPHABETIC ORDER) ............................................................................185 ANNEX 3: KEY LAWS, REGULATIONS AND OTHER MEASURES ..........................................187 ANNEX 4: LAWS, REGULATIONS AND OTHER MATERIALS PROVIDED BY RUSSIA TO THE EVALUATION TEAM.........................................................................................................194 ANNEX 5: PREDICATE OFFENCES COVERED BY ARTICLES 174, 174.1 AND 175 CRIMINAL CODE...................................................................................................................................................198 ANNEX 6: COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECOND EU AML COUNCIL DIRECTIVE..................200 PREFACE - INFORMATION AND METHODOLOGY USED FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 1. The evaluation of the anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regime of the Russian Federation was based on the Forty Recommendations 2003 and the Nine Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing 2001 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), together with the two Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council (91/308/EEC and 2001/97/EC), in accordance with MONEYVAL‘s terms of reference and Procedural rules, and was prepared using the AML/CFT Methodology 2004 1. The evaluation was based on the laws, regulations and other materials supplied (Annex 3) by Russia 2, and information obtained by the evaluation team during its on-site visits to Russia from 24 September to 2 October and 12 to 23 November 2007, and subsequently. During the on-site visit the evaluation team met with officials and representatives of relevant Russian government agencies and the private sector. A list of the bodies met is set out in Annex 2 to the mutual evaluation report. 2. This was a joint evaluation of the FATF, the Eurasian Group (EAG) and the MONEYVAL Committee of the Council of Europe (MONEYVAL). The evaluation was conducted by an evaluation team which consisted of experts from the FATF, EAG and MONEYVAL in criminal law, law enforcement and