The central Bank identified and added 1.2 million droppers to the database

The number of identified droppers is already 1.2 million people. This was announced on September 26 by Bogdan Shablya, Head of the Financial Monitoring and Currency Control Service of the Central Bank of Russia, at the XXII International Banking Forum.

"There are about 1.2 million people in the drop database now," he said, adding that about 100,000 drop accounts are identified every month.

He added that the volume of drop operations in 2025 has tripled compared to last year, and the average amount of operations has decreased from 2-3 million rubles to 200-300 thousand rubles. In the first half of 2026, the Concept of an anti-dropper platform will be presented.

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On June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that criminalizes droppers with up to six years in prison. The penalty is provided for the purchase or transfer of a bank card by persons who are not customers of the bank.

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