MOSCOW, March 6 (AVN) - The Russian Interior Ministry is very critical about the idea to set up financial intelligence, a new law-enforcement structure, First Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Kozlov told the Military News Agency on Tuesday.
Commenting on head of the Federal tax police Vyacheslav Soltaganov's remarks, Kozlov stressed that this structure, designed to control huge financial flows, would inevitably double functions of the Interdepartmental centre set up to counter illegal profit legalisation. The Russian Interior Ministry plays a leading role in the centre.
"There is no problem controlling financial flows, but there is still one related to improvement of work of the controlling institutes, and first of all of the Interdepartmental centre and currency-export control department, which once belonged to the Interior Ministry and then to the Ministry of Finance," said Kozlov.
Soltaganov discussed the advantages of financial intelligence with President Vladimir Putin. According to Soltaganov, Putin approved of the idea. The Federal tax police hopes "to radically change the situation in combating black capital turnover," Soltaganov stressed.