“Today, the number of performers on the grounds of dubious operations is about 3 thousand for contracts worth more than 130 billion rubles,” TASS quoted him as saying.

According to RIA Novosti, Chikhanchin also said that Rosfinmonitoring, together with the Central Bank, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office, stopped the activity of 25 shadow sites with a turnover of about 38 billion rubles.

In August, the Izvestia newspaper, citing Rosstat data, reported that the volume of gray salaries in Russia in 2018 amounted to 13.07 trillion rubles.