Ukrainians launder money in Belarus with plastic cards
The law-enforcement agencies in Belarus have detected a channel used by citizens of the neighboring Ukraine to launder money with bank plastic cards, Valery Yarasheuski, the director of the financial monitoring unit at the Belarus's State Control Committee told reporters on June 20 in Minsk.
He said suspicion was caused by the withdrawal of huge amounts of cash money from the Belarusian banks through plastic cards, owned by Ukrainians.
The talk is about hundreds of thousand of US dollars. Mr Yarasheuski also said that a Russian national was recently detained when carryin $400,000 in his suitcase.
The man alleged that he was given $100 and asked to travel to Belarus and withdraw the money there.
In the view of Mr Yarasheuski, these facts point to a scheme used to legalize criminal money, reports Interfax.
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He said suspicion was caused by the withdrawal of huge amounts of cash money from the Belarusian banks through plastic cards, owned by Ukrainians.
The talk is about hundreds of thousand of US dollars. Mr Yarasheuski also said that a Russian national was recently detained when carryin $400,000 in his suitcase.
The man alleged that he was given $100 and asked to travel to Belarus and withdraw the money there.
In the view of Mr Yarasheuski, these facts point to a scheme used to legalize criminal money, reports Interfax.
“Інтэрфакс”
