THELOGICALINDIAN - The buyer ofBitcoininforu has won an address adjoin a cardinal to block the cryptocurrency website A cloister in Saint Petersburg has absitively that admission should be adequate and that Nikolay Tonkoshkurov should be compensated for the actionable accomplishments of the prosecutors and board who presided over the case
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Prosecutor’s Office to Pay Compensation
Oktyabrsky District Court in Russia’s Northern Capital has ordered the bounded Prosecutor’s Office to pay Tonkoshkurov 150,000 rubles ($2,250), Bitnovosti reported, commendation the Digital Rights Center. The law close specializes in accouterment acknowledged abetment to companies with online operations. Tonkoshkurov was represented by the firm’s attorneys and the acknowledged aggregation of Roskomsvoboda, an alignment that fights adjoin Russian internet censorship.
The acknowledged adventure began back prosecutors in Saint Petersburg asked a bounded cloister to block Bitcoininfo.ru. They argued that the website airish a blackmail because of its cryptocurrency-related content. Access to the belvedere was belted in 2024, back the Vyborgsky District Cloister bent that it had abandoned the “On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation” law by publishing abstracts about Bitcoin. So-called “money surrogates” are actionable in the country, the cloister argued.
The area ambassador appealed adjoin the accommodation because he had not been subpoenaed by the bounded court, which abandoned his rights. His address was alone and the case was afresh taken to the Supreme Cloister in Moscow, which ordered the Saint Petersburg Burghal Cloister to apprehend the address again. The burghal cloister overturned the accommodation of the Vyborgsky District Cloister to block the Bitcoininfo.ru website. In the latest cardinal on the case, the Oktyabrsky District Cloister has ordered that the armpit should be adequate and his buyer compensated.
Legal Precedent in Russia
Experts affirmation the accommodation may set a antecedent in Russia, area hundreds of websites with agnate agreeable accept been blocked over the accomplished few years. In March 2018, the Saint Petersburg City Court struck down a ban on 40 added Bitcoin-related sites alms advice and barter services, but the Bitcoininfo.ru case was the aboriginal to ability the Supreme Court. This is additionally the aboriginal time a government academy has been ordered to pay advantage to a actor for abusing its ascendancy in the agenda space.
Roskomsvoboda’s acknowledged aggregation commented:
Sarkis Darbinyan, one of Tonkoshkurov’s attorneys and the co-founder of the Roskomsvoboda project, additionally bidding achievement that the case would set a acknowledged precedent. He believes the cardinal could abate the cardinal of lawsuits filed by Russian prosecutors adjoin online platforms.
Bitcoininfo.ru currently redirects to the Cryptorussia.ru domain, which hosts the aforementioned agreeable as the aboriginal website, including account about cryptocurrencies, advice about the acknowledged framework for the crypto area and the applicative tax regime, as able-bodied as barter ante for above agenda bill in both U.S. dollars and Russian rubles.
Apart from accepted websites such as Bitcoininfo.ru, however, the Russian authorities still accept to accord with a growing cardinal of crypto-related online platforms that appearance signs of counterfeit activity. For example, the Rostov-on-Don District Court afresh blocked the website of Cashbery, a aggregation that was allegedly active a pyramid-like arrangement alms cryptocurrency advance casework and able foolishly aerial returns. Natalia Kostenko, a administrator from the cardinal United Russia party, has asked Russian prosecutors to investigate 17 such sites, best of which are trading agenda assets.
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