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Qiwi and skrill.com threatened lock

The Federal Tax Service (FTS) has decided to block access to the sites and payment systems Qiwi skrill.com. Information about this can be seen by typing the names of sites to find the Registry

Qiwi -. Russia’s largest network of payment terminals, also owns its own system Qiwi Visa Wallet electronic payment. Skrill.com – registered in the UK system of electronic payments, formerly named Moneybookers

Advertising banned gambling

According to “to Lenta.ru” claim. FTS linked to the placement on the sites of these games payment information on the fate of gambling and transferring funds for appropriate purposes.

Federal Tax Service transferred its decision to Roskomnadzor, which informed about the sites you want to delete the forbidden information. If within three days, this is not done, access to the sites will be blocked by Russian service providers.

Website Qiwi listed in the Register of banned sites at the request of the Federal Tax Service

representative Qiwi confirmed CNews, the company received an appropriate request from the Roskomnadzor. The Company intends to execute it in the required time, adjusting the content of your site. On the performance of electronic purses occurring situation does not affect, in the promise Qiwi.

Gambling in Russia were banned in 2009 (except in specially designated gambling zones). Since 2014 Roskomnadzor began blocking sites online casinos, bookmakers, betting, sites for poker, etc.

FTS cleans Runet

At the end of 2015 the government has attributed to the Federal Tax Service of extrajudicial right to block sites with gambling. Since then, the Federal Tax Service has become a leader in the number of locks of all the departments and bodies empowered to restrict access to Internet sites.

Including Tax Service decision to block access to the Amazon S3 cloud platform after it was discovered in the advertising of gambling sites. In addition, the Federal Tax Service has blocked a number of websites with catalogs of mobile applications, as they bookmakers applications were placed.