Russia's central bank develops new monitoring platform to crack down on illegal cryptocurrencies over the counter

According to cryptonews, the Central Bank of Russia is developing a new monitoring platform to crack down on illegal cryptocurrency over the counter services and enhance financial security. Sources revealed that the initiative is being implemented in cooperation with Rosfinmonitoring. The platform will centralize information about suspicious activity, enabling banks to take pre-emptive action to refuse to open accounts for high-risk individuals. Bogdan Shabria, head of the Central Bank's Financial Monitoring and Currency Control Service, confirmed that the goal of the platform is to make illegal financial operations economically unviable by blocking at entry points. Unlike the KYC system, which mainly monitors businesses and relies heavily on passive measures, the platform will proactively target individual accounts and focus on detecting abnormal trading patterns in real time.