DEPUTIES WORRIED ABOUT DATABASE THEFT FROM CENTRAL BANK

MOSCOW, April 5 (RIA Novosti) - The State Duma committee on credit organizations and financial markets will turn on Wednesday to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to start proceedings on the theft of databases from the Central Bank, RIA Novosti was told by committee head Vladislav Reznik.

"If information on deposits was stolen from the Central Bank, what bank secrecy can we talk about?" he said.

In his opinion, the prosecutor's office must react to this fact.

The request will be made in the form of either a protocol instruction or a chamber resolution, said Reznik.

Central Bank head Sergei Ignatyev said Tuesday that the Bank of Russia was taking measures to enhance information security. In this way he commented on the latest information that a database on banking operations had appeared on the black market.

In Ignatyev's words, the talk is about databases on inter-bank payments from April 2003 until October 2004. Ignatyev said a functional check was underway in the Central Bank now, which he personally supervised. "Regardless of the check results, the Central Bank has already enhanced its information security," said Ignatyev.