
From September 17, PayPal will allow you to use rubles to pay for purchases at online stores, receive payments, transfer money to other users' accounts and withdraw them through bank accounts, Digit
reports .
Both organizations and individual users will be able to transfer money to their account in a Russian bank. PayPal will not charge additional fees for this, nor will it set a limit on funds transferred.
Russian consumers and stores will be covered by the PayPal consumer protection program, which allows you to contact PayPal to resolve mutual claims if one party is not satisfied with the transaction.
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Currently, Russian users can replenish their PayPal account and pay through it to foreign business organizations, but cannot perform operations in rubles and withdraw money through Russian banks.
In May of this year, PayPal
received a license from a non-bank credit organization (NPO) of the Central Bank of Russia. The license allows PayPal Ru LLC to carry out banking operations with funds in rubles and foreign currency.
Roem
notes that with the receipt of legal status in Russia, PayPal has tightened the requirements for user identification: individuals need to provide scanned copies of their passports to verify their identity, and business account holders have a list of documents related to the activities of a legal entity in Russia.
UPD: In the comments they paid attention to the fact that in fact, the
user agreement has certain limits on transfers.