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Yury Chikhanchin

Yury Chikhanchin was born on June 17, 1951, in Krasnoyarsk. In 1974 he graduated from the Siberian Technological Institute as a production engineer. From 1974-1975 he was a foreman on the Nazimovo logging enterprise, Krasnoyarsk Association, Nazimovo, Krasnoyarsk Region. From 1975-1977 he was a foreman and senior superintendent on Nizhne-Kizirsky PMK-6, Krasnoyarsklesstroi, Koshurnikov, Krasnoyarsk Territory. From 1977-1978he served as Chief of the Production Planning Department on Minusinsk PMK-22, Krasnoyarskkolkhozstroi, Minusinsk.

1978-1994: served in state security bodies.

1994-2000: Head of the East Siberian Regional Directorate of the VEK of Russia. 2000-2002: Head of the Currency Control Department, Finance Ministry of Russia. 2002-2004: First Deputy Chairman of the Fiscal Monitoring Committee of the Russian Federation.

2004-2007: Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Fiscal Monitoring. September 18, 2007: appointed Head of the Secretariat of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov. May 22, 2008: appointed Head of the Federal Service for Fiscal Monitoring.

The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a threat to the Russian financial system, Yury Chikhanchin, chief of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring), said at a banking forum in Sochi 04 September 2014. "In effect our financial institutions will become tax agents, tax informants for the US economy," Chikhanchin said. FATCA, which became effective in July 2014, required foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to provide annual reports on the accounts of US taxpayers to to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

In November 2015 Yury Chikhanchin, the Director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, cautioned about the future collapse of the MMM Pyramid Scheme of Sergei Mavrodi in China. At the conference “Risks and Challenges for the economies of the BRICS” Chikhanchin clarified the dangers. “From the media, we know that MMM, with Sergei Mavrodi in charge, is currently expanding its activity in China. Russia has witnessed the collapse of a similar system by Mavrodi in the past, and thousands of defrauded investors still cannot recover their money until this day. I’m afraid our Chinese friends will face the same outcome.”

Yury Chikhanchin told President Vladimir Putin during a meeting 10 March 2016 that Russian citizens were wiring substantial sums of money to terrorist groups that seek donations online to fight "infidels". The electronic transfers reach tens of millions of rubles (hundreds of thousands of dollars) each year, the chief of the Rosfinmonitoring watchdog, specified after the meeting. For comparison, a series of terror attacks in Paris in November 2015 that killed 130 people cost organizers about 2,000 euros to 3,000 euros, Chikhanchin was quoted as saying, without specifying the source of the estimate. Government agents have identified 42 terror cells in Russia so far this year, along with 30 more found in other countries in cooperation with foreign security services, Chikhanchin said. About 1,500 people were added to terrorist lists last year, and 3,500 bank accounts have been frozen.