MOSCOW. March 5 (Interfax) - Prosecutors sent 9,500 lawsuits to courts worth more than 1.7 billion rubles against holders of bank accounts that fraud victims used to transfer money over two years, Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said.
"Lawsuit work is intensifying to protect citizens who suffered from illegal actions. Prosecutors sent 9,500 lawsuits to courts worth more than 1.7 billion rubles against holders of bank drops' accounts, to which aggrieved persons transferred stolen money over the past two years," Krasnov said at a meeting between the Russian president and the government on Wednesday.
Most bank drops know that what they are doing is illegal and "work for interest," he said.
Judicial practice is being formed on cases in which loan contracts signed under the influence of fraud are contested, and such transactions have been contested in more than 1,100 lawsuits, he said.
"Supervision focuses on the issue of personal data protection. More than 157,000 violations of regulations in this area were fixed over the past 2.5 years, including in the functioning of critical information infrastructure facilities in bodies of authority, financial establishments and organizations," Krasnov said.