Dishonest bank employees and droppers may be equated to "accomplices of fraudsters

Dishonest bank employees and droppers may be equated to "accomplices of fraudsters".

State Duma deputy and first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets Konstantin Bakharev spoke about this.

He cited the example of an elderly Muscovite who, together with scammers, took out a loan in two banks for a total of 1.5 million rubles. At the same time, the woman only receives a pension of 20 thousand rubles.

As Bakharev noted, there are grounds to suspect that there could have been corrupt employees in these institutions who helped the scammers so much. This issue needs to be looked into , the deputy notes. But first, the fact needs to be proven .

"Therefore, the banks themselves should be interested in identifying such employees in their teams: at the very least, fire them "for loss of trust." Then let law enforcement deal with them. But today they do not have such an opportunity," Bakharev noted.

Another sore point is droppers*, of which there are currently about a million in the country. This type of fraud is gaining momentum today.

Key proposals have already been prepared :

> limit the number of cards per person;

> introduce criminal liability for such persons.

* A dropper is a person whose bank card is used to transfer or cash out stolen money.

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