Russian businesses are moving out their capital from their country, and the outflow looms. Every day about 400 transactions which cannot but fall under the notice of the Committee of State Control (CSC) are conducted with the help of the banking system of Belarus.
“Of course, we are very concerned about the situation that has developed in the neighbouring country,” Vyachaslau Reut, director of CSC financial monitoring department, said on TV. “Once a large-scale financial crisis broke out there, we immediately noticed that dishonest Russian citizens began to try withdraw assets to the third countries in transit through the Belarusian banking system.
The head of financial intelligence also added referring to the financial monitoring department that over 350 criminal cases were initiated in 2014.
In recent months, Russia has been losing enormous amount of gold and foreign currency reserves on stock exchanges to support the ruble exchange rate.
Last year the U.S. Federal Reserve System recommended the Western businesses operating in Russia to save their money and move out of the country.
