Moscow, July 31 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting investigators the right to suspend bank account transactions by suspects for up to 10 days if it is proven that the accounts were used for criminal purposes.
The document published on the government's web portal of legal acts on Thursday supplements the Russian Criminal Procedure Code with a new Article 115.2.
Under the law, investigators may suspend suspects' bank transactions with the consent of their senior officer, in case of an emergency, or if there is evidence that bank accounts, deposits, electronic money, and money paid for communication services are being used for criminal activities.
The law supplements an article of the Russian Criminal Procedure Co...