Raiffeisenbank calculated how much money businessmen returned to Russia before publishing a black list of the US Treasury Photo: Public Domain Pictures In January 2018, Russian companies and citizens transferred $ 12.7 billion to their homeland - an amount comparable to the balance of the current account of the whole country. The participants of the Kremlin List returned $ 5 billion of this money, Raiffeisenbank analysts calculated .

The Federal Tax Service has launched another campaign to identify firms registered at mass addresses, writes Inc. according to the entrepreneurs themselves. For small and medium-sized businesses, verification threatens with serious problems - for example, account blocking.

Sweden is the fastest country in the world to move away from cash - more than a third of Swedes do not use cash at all or do so once or twice a year. A couple of years ago, such a pace of cash abandonment was a reason for pride, but now the situation has begun to cause serious concern for the local central bank. The regulator issued a special report in which it admitted that it was forced to look for ways to rebuild the financial system. Sweden has less cash than any other country in the world.

The head of the Latvian Central Bank and a member of the governing board of the European Central Bank (ECB), Ilmars Rimsevics, was detained by employees of the Bureau for the Prevention and Combating of Corruption. The reason for this could be the appeal of the Russian banker Grigory Guselnikov. The scandal takes place against the background of the actual collapse of one of the largest Latvian banks ABLV, accused of laundering Russian money.

Rigla, Russia's largest pharmacy chain, may close almost half of its outlets due to a new draft law by the Ministry of Industry and Trade that allows grocery stores to sell over-the-counter drugs, Alexander Filippov, CEO of the chain, said at a meeting of Delovaya Rossiya. The participants in the meeting argue that the law will lead to an increase in prices for prescription drugs by 11%-16%, which will cost buyers 51-75 billion rubles a year.

Oleg Deripaska will step down as president of En+ and Rusal and will remain only on the board of directors of these companies as a non-executive director, writes Kommersant . According to the official version, the businessman wants to develop the GAZ group, according to the unofficial version, the reason is his inclusion in the Kremlin list. According to Kommersant, the issue of reshuffles will be considered at the end of this week.

S7 will be the first large private customer Sukhoi Superjet Photo: Wikimedia Commons The largest Russian private airline S7 will order 100 Sukhoi Superjet aircraft for $ 2.5-2.7 billion. The contract will allow S7 to solve two tasks at once-to master the only one available to it by the regional transportation and guarantee the favor of officials as the largest customer of domestic equipment. The plane for the S7 will be specially redone.