{"eid":"interfax-russia","name":"QIWI Wallet","domain":"interfax-russia.ru","resolved_by":"domain","topics":["debrid"],"n_records":1,"best_vorder":7,"review":null,"aliases":["QIWI Wallet","interfax-russia.ru"],"records":[{"rid":"debrid/qiwi-wallet","card":{"rid":"debrid/qiwi-wallet","eid":"interfax-russia","topic":"debrid","slug":"qiwi-wallet","provider":"QIWI Wallet","url":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny","domain":"interfax-russia.ru","category":"Russian e-wallet (payment rail used by CIS file hosts and resellers)","tier":"wallet","verdict":"dead","vorder":7,"grp":"dead","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":"Russia","crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:24:30.824Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"not applicable: a payment rail, not a retrieval service","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"qiwi-wallet","provider":"QIWI Wallet","url":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny","category":"Russian e-wallet (payment rail used by CIS file hosts and resellers)","tier":"wallet","free_tier":{"stated":"not applicable: a payment rail, not a retrieval service","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny","notes":"unstated"},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny","notes":"unstated"},"egress":{"terms":"not applicable","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"Was a wallet app and a merchant payment form; as of 2024-02-21 top-ups and withdrawals stopped after the banking licence was revoked.","tooling":"None usable for a new payment.","chaining":"Several CIS services still list 'QIWI' among their payment methods (Megaseed.kz lists QIWI KZT and QIWI RUB Turbobit's reseller directory lists Qiwi). Those listings are stale: the rail stopped working in Russia on 2024-02-21.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"wallet top-up and withdrawal stopped on 2024-02-21 when the Central Bank revoked the licence of QIWI Bank","source":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny"}],"limits_note":"The wallet brand later moved to a new domain (qiwiwall) per RIA, but a moved brand is not a working top-up rail for a foreign buyer.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"No quota applies: the rail is closed. Any service that lists QIWI today is listing a payment method a buyer cannot fund.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"A Russian wallet, funded by Russian rails; after the licence revocation the funding path itself is closed.","country":"Russia"},"reliability_note":"Funds in QIWI wallets were not covered by deposit insurance and claims go into the third creditor queue, per the DIA procedure reported in 2024.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The licence revocation and the stopped top-up/withdrawal are quoted from Interfax-Russia's report of 2024-02-21, read today. The later domain move is a RIA headline seen in search, not read in full. Evidence dates normalised to the read date on 2026-10-23; a source that carries its own date keeps it in the proved field.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.interfax-russia.ru/view/kivi-bank-lishilsya-licenzii-qiwi-koshelek-perevody-cherez-contact-ne-dostupny","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Клиенты кредитного учреждения не могут пополнить кошельки и вывести с них средства' after the Central Bank revoked the QIWI Bank licence on 2024-02-21"},{"url":"https://megaseed.kz/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"a live CIS service still lists 'QIWI KZT' and 'QIWI RUB' among its payment anchors - the stale-listing case this record exists to flag"}],"verdict":"dead","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:24:30.824Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"A dead rail, recorded because a reader will otherwise treat 'QIWI accepted' on a provider page as a working payment option. The rule this establishes: a payment method listed by a CIS service is a claim about the past, and must be checked against the rail's own status. QIWI KZT may still work in Kazakhstan; nothing was found either way, so the record does not claim it."},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.interface","interface-unknown"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}