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OREANDA-NEWS The Federation Council has approved a law extending the requirements of anti-money laundering legislation to transactions with the digital ruble from July 1, 2025.

The document establishes the legal framework for countering money laundering and terrorist financing when conducting transactions using the digital ruble. A multi-level model of execution of anti–money laundering requirements is provided with the involvement of credit institutions participating in the digital ruble platform and the operator of this platform, the Central Bank.

When accepting and subsequently servicing users of the platform, the Central Bank will assess the degree (level) of suspicious transactions they have committed and assign each user to one of the three risk groups. Having identified organizations and individuals among the users of the platform whose funds are subject to freezing (blocking), the Central Bank will apply appropriate measures to them.

The platform operator will inform Rosfinmonitoring about suspicious and suspended transactions with digital rubles in accordance with the anti-money laundering law, as well as respond to its requests for transactions with digital rubles.

Decisions of the platform operator can be appealed. The procedure will be similar to the one that currently applies to credit and non-credit financial institutions.

The report on the Bank of Russia's performance of functions in the field of countering money laundering in the organization and operation of the digital ruble platform will be reviewed annually by the National Financial Council of the regulator.

Information on the performance of these functions by the regulator will be included in the annual report of the Central Bank and checked by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation when preparing an opinion on it.