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FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of July 2, 2021 No. 355-FZ

About modification of separate legal acts of the Russian Federation

Accepted by the State Duma on June 15, 2021

Approved by the Federation Council on June 23, 2021

Article 1

Bring in article 7 of the Federal Law of August 7, 2001 No. 115-FZ "About counteraction of legalization (washing) of income gained in the criminal way and to terrorism financing" (The Russian Federation Code, 2001, No. 33, Art. 3418; 2002, No. 44, Art. 4296; 2004, No. 31, Art. 3224; 2006, No. 31, Art. 3446; 2007, No. 16, Art. 1831; No. 49, Art. 6036; 2009, No. 23, Art. 2776; 2010, No. 30, Art. 4007; 2011, No. 27, Art. 3873; No. 46, Art. 6406; 2013, No. 26, Art. 3207; No. 52, Art. 6968; 2014, No. 19, Art. 2315; No. 23, Art. 2934; No. 30, Art. 4219; 2015, No. 1, Art. 37; No. 18, Art. 2614; No. 24, Art. 3367; No. 27, Art. 3945, 4001; 2016, No. 1, Art. 27, 43, 44; No. 26, Art. 3860; No. 27, Art. 4196; 2017, No. 31, Art. 4830; 2018, No. 1, Art. 54, 66; No. 18, Art. 2560, 2576; No. 53, Art. 8491; 2019, No. 12, Art. 1222, 1223; No. 27, Art. 3534, 3538; No. 30, Art. 4152; No. 31, Art. 4418, 4430; No. 49, Art. 6953; No. 51, Art. 7490; No. 52, Art. 7798; 2020, No. 9, Art. 1138; No. 15, Art. 2239; No. 29, Art. 4518; No. 30, Art. 4738; No. 31, Art. 5018; 2021, No. 1, Art. 18, 75; No. 9, Art. 1469) following changes:

The paragraph third the subitem 1 of Item 1 to state 1) in the following edition:

"concerning legal entities - the name, form of business, identification taxpayer number or code of the foreign organization, data on the available licenses for the right of implementation of the activities which are subject to licensing, domain name, the index of the page of the website in Internet networks with which use by the legal entity renders services (in the presence), for the legal entities registered in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, also the primary state registration number and the address of the legal entity, for the legal entities registered according to the legislation of foreign state, also registration number, place of registration and the address of the legal entity in the territory of the state in which it is registered;";

To add 2) with Item 15 of the following content:

"15. The organizations performing transactions with money or other property are forbidden to accept on servicing of persons performing activities in the territory of the Russian Federation without the license obtained in accordance with the established procedure if the legislation of the Russian Federation concerning such activities provides its availability, and also to perform at the request of such persons of transaction with money or other property.

The organizations performing transactions with money or other property are forbidden to accept on servicing, and also to perform transactions with money and other property at the request of persons rendering services with use of the website in Internet network if domain name of this website, the index of the page of this website contain in the Unified register of domain names, indexes of pages of the websites in Internet network and the network addresses allowing to identify the websites in the Internet networks containing information which distribution in the Russian Federation is forbidden.".

Article 2

Bring in the Federal Law of November 11, 2003 No. 138-FZ "About lotteries" (The Russian Federation Code, 2003, No. 46, Art. 4434; 2005, No. 30, Art. 3104; 2013, No. 52, Art. 6981; 2017, No. 49, Art. 7330; 2018, No. 11, Art. 1587; 2019, No. 29, Art. 3856; No. 30, Art. 4141) following changes:

1) in Article 6.1:

a) state part 4 in the following edition:

"4. Activities for carrying out lotteries in the territory of the Russian Federation, including their carrying out with use of information and telecommunication networks, including Internet networks, and also means of communication and lottery terminals, are prohibited, except for the lotteries specified regarding the 4th article 3 of this Federal Law. For the purposes of this part the place of implementation of activities for carrying out lotteries with use of information and telecommunication networks, including Internet networks, and also means of communication the territory of the Russian Federation is recognized if one of the following conditions is carried out at least:

1) the residence of the participant of lottery is located in the territory of the Russian Federation;

2) the location of bank in which the account used by the participant of lottery for payment of lottery rates and implementation of other payments for benefit of the operator of lottery or the distributor, or the operator of electronic money through whom the participant of lottery performs payment of lottery rates and other payments for benefit of the operator of lotteries or the distributor is opened is located in the territory of the Russian Federation;

3) the network address of the participant of lottery used for payment of lottery rates and implementation of other payments for benefit of the operator of lottery or the distributor is registered in the Russian Federation;

4) the international country code of the subscriber number used by the participant of lottery for payment of lottery rates and implementation of other payments for benefit of the operator of lottery or the distributor is appropriated to the Russian Federation.";

b) add part 6 with words ", including Internet networks, and also means of communication and lottery terminals";

2) in Article 6.2:

a) state the name in the following edition:

"Article 6.2. Restrictions of money transfers and acceptance of payments of physical persons when implementing activities for the organization and carrying out lotteries with violation of the law of the Russian Federation";

b) in part 1:

the paragraph one to state in the following edition:

"1. The credit institution servicing the payer shall refuse carrying out transaction on money transfer, including electronic money, at the request of physical person directly or through foreign payment service providers for benefit of the Russian legal entities, individual entrepreneurs, and also foreign citizens and stateless persons performing business activity, the foreign legal entities, the foreign organizations who are not legal entities on foreign law (further - foreign persons), information on which is included in the list of persons for benefit of whom money transfers are prohibited, including electronic money, at the request of physical person when carrying out lotteries (further - the list of persons for benefit of whom money transfers are prohibited).";

third to state the paragraph in the following edition:

"The payment agent, the telecom operator, the operator of mail service has no right to perform acceptance of payments of physical persons for benefit of the Russian legal entities, individual entrepreneurs, foreign persons, information on whom is included in the list of persons for benefit of whom money transfers are prohibited.";

c) add with part 1.1 following of content:

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