MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) froze approximately 3,500 accounts of individuals involved in terrorist activity and launched over 60 criminal inquiries on the counts of financing terrorism last year, according to Rosfinmonitoring chief Yuri Chikhanchin.
"We have made progress in the fight against financing terrorism, and we think that this result is extremely important. Sixty-two criminal inquiries [have been opened in all]," he told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a presentation of the service's performance in 2014.
"A mechanism for freezing the assets of terrorists has been set in motion. We have frozen approximately 3,500 accounts of individuals involved in terrorism and listed as bearing relation to terrorism and extremism," the Rosfinmonitoring chief reported.