Khloponin: NCFD regions are leaders in money laundering

To date, Northern Caucasus is in the lead among Russian regions in money laundering, Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today at the Collegium of the MIA of the NCFD.

Summing up the totals of 2011, Mr Khloponin noted that they managed to do not everything. "Today, unfortunately, I can state that the NCFD is in the lead in money laundering," he said.

According to his story, "huge amounts of money are laundered through the banking system, namely through dummy companies in the NCFD."

Also, according to his data, the region sees cases of printing counterfeit banknotes. "This is a signal that organized crime is walking freely in the district," the "Interfax" quotes the Plenipotentiary as saying.

Speaking to the Collegium of the MIA of the NCFD on the outcomes of their work in 2011, Alexander Khloponin stressed that so far this situation has not been resolved. According to his story, for more than ten years of struggle against the armed underground, law enforcers had failed to cut the financial support of militants by their helpers.

"We failed to stop the cash flow, directed at financing the crime and terrorism, and put a full stop on it. Besides, we failed to break the merging of the crime with the power," Mr Khloponin had to admit.