The Ministry of Justice asks for access to banking secrets to look for "agents"

The Ministry of Justice asks that the legislators include its central headquarters and territorial bodies in the list of structures that have access to banking and tax secrets. This was reported by RBC with reference to the report of the ministry, who received the State Duma. The introduction of such changes to the legislation, the agency explains, is necessary for the effective identification of "foreign agents".

A number of NPOs, the report says, receive money not directly from abroad, but through intermediary structures. Officials said that they were also doing this task, giving the case of the Voice-Volga region as an example. At the same time, they complained that the identification of such organizations is a particular difficulty.

According to the 1990 Law "On Banks and Banking Activities", the Ministry of Justice has no access to banking secrets. The Tax Code, in turn, does not provide for the department of access to tax secrets. Under these conditions, it is noted in the report, to establish whether Russian NPOs received funds from abroad, "it is almost impossible due to the lack of mechanisms for the destruction of such information from the Ministry of Justice of Russia."

In addition, the ministry seeks from deputies the right to request information from the territorial bodies of Rosfinmonitoring.

The head of the Duma Committee on Public Relations, Zhirinovets, Yaroslav Nilov, stated the publication, commenting on the Ministry of Justice report that the proposal to strengthen control over the intermediary structures that nationalize the funds, then transferred to the "agents", looks logical.