A number of banks have already tried to achieve the goal of using paint and not using armed guards and armored vehicles / Maksim Stulov / Vedomosti

Cash collectors will be able to use cash packaging devices that paint the banknotes in case of unauthorized opening, instead of specially equipped vehicles and armed guards. This is stated in the draft regulation of the Central Bank, published on Monday.

The Central Bank's regulation will come into force 10 days after its publication, the draft says, and its discussion will last until June 12. Representatives of Sberbank and MKB did not respond to the request, and Inkahran was unable to obtain comments.

The paint must be resistant to solvents, chemical reagents and other characteristics that allow its presence on the banknote of the Bank of Russia to be identified, the document says. In the case of using devices with paint, it is permitted not to apply the requirements "established for motor vehicles, as well as for the presence of service weapons by collectors or the escort of collectors, cash workers by employees of internal affairs agencies, a private security organization who have service weapons."

In the West, cash collectors use paint when transporting cash, so they don’t need armed guards or armored vehicles: it’s simply impossible to open a container without damaging the cash, says TKB Vice President Igor Antonov.

One of the first to use paint when transporting money was Sberbank, the use of paint in containers for transporting cash makes the theft of money senseless, reminds Deputy General Director of Interfax-CEA Alexey Buzdalin. Criminals, knowing this, are unlikely to attack the collector, he continues, if this happens, the bank loses its funds, but they are covered by insurance.

A number of banks have tried to achieve the possibility of using paint and not using armed guards and armored vehicles, which would significantly reduce the cost of transporting cash, Antonov explains. The cost of an armored vehicle reaches 3 million rubles, and its crew consists of at least three people: a driver, a security guard, a collector, he gives an example.

"If the Central Bank changes its position and allows the use of paint, then I think many will switch to this method of protecting money during transportation," Antonov believes. However, this will not happen quickly, he warns: it will be necessary to change internal documents, purchase paint, work out a new technology, etc. In addition, everyone has already purchased armored vehicles.

Sberbank announced on Friday that it would be delivering cash via drones, and that containers with paint would be used to protect the money, which would make the bills unusable in the event of an attack on the drone. “We do not rule out that in about a month we will be piloting [testing] such drones in Kazan,” said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank. The Central Bank’s draft regulation, although it allows for the use of protection in the event of paint being used, requires that the transportation of money be carried out by one or more cashiers.

Drone instead of a security guard

Drone instead of a security guard