MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree revising the structure of federal executive bodies, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday.
The move comes as part of a highly-publicized campaign by the president to fight against corruption.
According to the decree, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring), a former subdivision of the Finance Ministry, will now answer to the Russian government.
The state-run agency is aimed at countering money-laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Created by a decree in November, 2001, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service was headed for the first six years of its existence by Viktor Zubkov, Russia's newly elected prime minister.
