In the period from March 2022 to March 2023, Russian citizens tried to illegally export more than 1 billion rubles to foreign countries. The number of such violations increased by 70% in 12 months, informs The newspaper Izvestia cites statistics from the Federal Customs Service (FTS).
In total, the employees of the department revealed more than 12 thousand violations of the cross-border import and export of currency by citizens until the end of last month. We are talking about the non-declaration or incorrect indication of the transported amounts, as well as the violation of the ban on the export of foreign currency from the Russian Federation, in force since March 2, 2022. specified in the material.
“During the year, more than 12,000 violations were revealed by citizens on the import and export of money across the border. The number of such violations increased by 70% <….> The total amount of violations detected during cash exports reached 1.04 billion rubles. The volume of illegally imported funds decreased by 1.5 times to 463.8 million rubles, ”the article states.
The Ministry concluded that the main reasons for the increasing cases of violations in the export of funds are the impossibility of making transfers through banks and using Russian cards in some foreign countries that impose sanctions on Moscow.
September 23 Central Bank still The increase in demand for cash has reached its maximum since March 2022. This figure has increased by 132.1 billion rubles in monetary terms.