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before?" First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said.Bank experts said they were skeptical about Frenkel's allegations.
"No names are mentioned in the letter, and unsubstantiated and unspecified allegations cannot be taken seriously," said Anatoly Aksakov, president of the Russian Association of Regional Banks and deputy chief of the bank committee in the lower house of parliament.
Igor Yurgens, vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and chairman of the board of directors at Renaissance Capital, echoed Aksakov, saying there could be nothing further from truth.
"Quite the contrary, Kozlov was instructed to fight banks that engage in money laundering, and he did his job rigorously," Yurgens said.
The banker added that tough national and international regulations made money laundering for state and large private banks unattractive, while small banks with an insignificant client base were the ones
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