Oreshkin noted that excessive reporting is one of the problems of implementing national goals.
In this regard, he recalled the tactics of MI-6 agent Kim Philby, who also worked for Soviet intelligence. Philby bombarded British counterintelligence workers with unnecessary paperwork in order to distract them.
Kudrin in response to this inquired whether it means that you need to "look for enemies in your ranks."
“Alexei Leonidovich, here I can say that you need to look for them in your ranks, for example,” said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development.
Oreshkin said that his department receives a large number of requests from the Accounts Chamber and from other oversight bodies.
He added that Kudrin "has the opportunity in the Accounts Chamber to find who there is a foreign intelligence agent."
Oreshkin, during a speech at the World Festival of Youth and Students in 2017, joked that Bitcoin would become a good tool in the hands of artificial intelligence if it intended to take over the world.