Rosfinmonitoring has recorded the universalization of shadow sites

Shadow platforms are becoming more universal and are being combined into network structures in which several similar platforms can interact at once. This was announced on November 5 by the head of Rosfinmonitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin.

"As for the shadow sector, unfortunately, it continues to take place in Russia. There are a few points here. The first is the universalization of shadow platforms," he said during a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to the head of the department, if earlier shady ones ad platforms engaged in separate operations, for example output facilities or by cashing out, that now they combine several directions activities. By this such schemes they acquire network personality: in them can to be involved more ten large ones and small ones financial organizations, communications between which extremely difficult track it.

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On the same day, Chikhanchin said that in 2026, the agency suppressed the activities of several shadow platforms, the total turnover of which amounted to about 9 billion rubles. He said that as part of the interdepartmental plan to legalize the shadow economy, together with other departments, it was possible to prevent suspicious transactions worth about 360 billion rubles, primarily through commercial banks.