Information was valued at 50 rubles: it has become known how much banks will pay for access to the Ministry of Internal Affairs databases

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put forward an initiative to introduce paid access for commercial entities to information from police databases. This concerns verification of passport data and information on citizens' registration — services actively used by banks, telecom operators, and other organizations. This was reported by the Interfax news agency.

According to the document, each completed data exchange session will cost fifty rubles. Such a session is understood to mean one request and the electronic response to it.

The explanatory note states that in 2024–2025 organizations sent an average of 2.4 billion requests to the Ministry of Internal Affairs annually. At the new rate, this could bring the federal budget about 119.6 billion rubles a year. These funds are planned to be directed toward financing the activities of the internal affairs bodies.

The paid verification will concern confirmation of the validity of a Russian passport, as well as information on permanent or temporary registration. Access to such data is needed by banks when issuing loans, by telecom operators when registering SIM cards, and by accredited certification centers when issuing electronic signatures. All requests, as now, will go through the Unified System of Interdepartmental Electronic Interaction (SMEV), to which more than 500 organizations are already connected.