THELOGICALINDIAN - Rosfinmonitoring is administering hundreds of investigations into cases involving cryptocurrencies the arch of the bureau appear Hundreds of bags of Russians booty allotment in crypto deals away the top regulator additionally appear to the Russian president
Russian Authorities Initiate 20 Criminal Cases Linked to Crypto Assets
The Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation, additionally accepted as Rosfinmonitoring, is aggravating to break about 400 cases in which cryptocurrencies are involved. The agency’s director, Yury Chikhanchin, appear the cardinal during a affair with President Vladimir Putin.
The banking babysitter is alive on them calm with assembly of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and the Federal Security Service (FSB), the baronial official noted. Law administration authorities accept already accomplished 20 bent cases accompanying to agenda assets, he additionally said.
Commenting on the aggregate of the crypto about-face registered by his department, Chikhanchin accustomed that Russians abide to actively use cryptocurrency platforms based alfresco of the country. He elaborated:
Quoted by the crypto aperture of Russian business account aperture RBC, the regulator acicular out that these are not alone settlements or advance deals. Yury Chikhanchin is assertive that some of these transfers are accompanying to crime.
According to official abstracts appear beforehand this year, the cardinal of cloister cases apropos to cryptocurrency or crypto mining in Russia has exceeded 1,500 in 2021. Of them, 62% were bent cases, mostly accompanying to biologic trafficking. The numbers represent a 40-percent anniversary increase.
Russia is yet to absolutely adapt its crypto amplitude with a law “On Digital Currency” that assembly are accepted to analysis during the abatement affair of the State Duma, the lower abode of parliament. While best intuitions in Moscow accede that the ruble should abide the alone acknowledged breakable in the country, admiral are exploring the advantage to acquiesce crypto payments for baby settlements in all-embracing trade.
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