The Central Bank of Russia is auditing Kept, a company that audits a bank that lacks a QIWI license. The newspaper reports this “Vedomosti” With reference to sources.
According to the publication’s sources close to the regulator, the Central Bank requested information about the auditor’s awareness and reaction to detecting risky transactions at the bank. Vedomosti noted that in recent years, the Central Bank has repeatedly imposed restrictions against QIWI and issued instructions to it.
International network KMPG had previously carried out audits of the bank’s QIWI, but in 2022 it left the country due to sanctions, after which Kept became its successor.
The audit of the company is carried out by the Corporate Affairs Department of the Central Bank, which is responsible for the regulation, control and supervision of auditors serving socially important organizations in the financial market.
One of the interlocutors of the publication stated that this investigation was the first serious case in which the company’s compliance with the “Law on Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds of Crime and Combating the Financing of Terrorism” was evaluated. Until this point, auditors were first checked for compliance with audit rules and then within the scope of the anti-money laundering law.
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Formerly Central Bank filed Case against QIWI bank.
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Source: Gazeta
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