The single database about property and accounts of Russians

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2017: Offer on creation of "single databases about property and accounts" of Russians

The chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin suggests to create single databases about property and accounts which would allow to define quickly property of suspects of criminal activity.

Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin. Photo: Konstantin Zavrazhin/rg

At the beginning of December, 2017 in the interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta^[1], published in anticipation of the International day of fight against corruption, Bastrykin said the following:

It is reasonable to create uniform federal and regional information databases about the real estate, accounts and deposits opened in different credit institutions, for the purpose of ensuring law-enforcement activity, including for the purpose of timely establishment of a property status of suspected (defendants) and the subsequent compensation of the damage caused by corruption crimes.

While it was talked only of corruption crimes, Bastrykin's formulation suggests an idea that expected databases will have to include data on property and savings of all citizens of the country.

In particular, points to it also that in the context of corruption crimes the head of the Russian Investigative Committee speaks much about case of the director Kirill Serebrennikov who the official is not. However, embezzlement of budget funds is imputed to it.

Bastrykin also directly speaks about need of access for investigating bodies to data on any accounts for credit institutions.

Since July 1, 2014 became effective amendments to the tax law of the Russian Federation — Article 86.1, Article 93.1, Article 129.1 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation according to which all banks undertake to submit automatically to tax administration data on opening and closing of any accounts, including the accounts of individuals. They are also obliged to provide any information on a remaining balance and the movement on these accounts on a request of tax administration within three days after receipt of such request, and FTS has the right to send such requests without any leave of the court.

Apparently, now the same information want quickly and without efforts to receive investigating bodies.

This initiative has one more difficult aspect.

Even if to lay aside legal aspects, creation of the similar database means accumulation of huge amounts of personal information — actually, on all population of the country — on one resource — Roman Ginyatullin, the information security expert of SEC Consult Services company notes. — And with it the question volume that access to these data was got only by those who are authorized for it by the law, but not everyone is immediately brought up. Hit of these data in hands of crime will have catastrophic effects.

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