Some 4 percent of GDP was illegally withdrawn from the Russian economy last year by money laundering in Russia and abroad, posing a threat to national security, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said during a video conference call with President Dmitry Medvedev. "Thorough analysis of the situation in the financial sphere, the situation with capital outflow and schemes to launder criminal funds inside the country has shown that of the $84 billion net outflow of capital in 2011, according to Central Bank and Rosfinmonitoring (the Russian antui-laundering agency headed by Zubkov) estimates, about 1 trillion rubles ($33 billion) was removed with signs of money laundering," Zubkov said during the call, Interfax reported.

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