The head of the parliamentary finance committee, Danylo Getmantsev, announced an initiative to introduce sanctions against Ukrainians who “rent out” their bank cards to so-called droppers, intermediaries in illegal money transfer operations. Recall that earlier, for money transfer transactions, the NBU wanted to include droppers in the register for 12 months, the State Tax Service, the State Financial Monitoring Service and the BEB promised to vigorously combat schemes in non-cash transfers between individuals, and the National Bank warned how not to fall into a criminal scheme with payment cards.
“I see that stating the obvious about the consequences of transferring citizens’ cards for use by fraudsters has caused quite a stir. But sanctions for complicity in dropper schemes are nothing new. And everyone who trusts their financial cards to fraudsters should know what they are risking. Let’s be realistic. A person will not “rent” your card to buy milk and cookies, or pay for travel. These are always illegal payments, fraud, fraud – the whole range of illegal operations,” says Hetmantsev.
According to him, the National Bank has appealed to the parliamentary Committee on Finance and Taxes to amend the legislation on the creation of a drop register. The bill will be submitted to parliament in the near future, the MP promises.
“Therefore, we must break these schemes and reduce the possibility of their recovery to zero,” said Hetmantsev, explaining that, in addition to other types of fraudulent operations, they are used for drug trafficking and financing terrorism. Therefore, he warned that getting into the drop register, limiting the possibility of carrying out financial transactions – all this is not worth the money that scammers offer you.
At the same time, MP Oleksiy Honcharenko spoke negatively about this initiative: “Hetmantsev wants to take away pensions from Ukrainians!” According to him, those included in the relevant register will be restricted in financial transactions and will not even receive pensions. “That is, if a conditional grandmother, perhaps through blackmail, perhaps through deception, gave her data to fraudsters – she may be deprived of the pension for which she worked all her life and paid taxes!”, – explains the People’s Deputy.
