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ForkLog 20 09.10.2020

Handelsblatt links former Wirecard top executive to Russian RFI Bank

The former chief operating officer of the collapsed German fintech group Wirecard, Jan Marsalek, has close ties to Russian financial circles, according to Handelsblatt citing its own sources.

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ForkLog 11 07.10.2020

Irkutsk drug dealer charged with laundering half a million rubles via Bitcoin

Authorities in Irkutsk have charged a local resident, previously detained on suspicion of illegal drug trafficking, with laundering funds through cryptocurrency. The press service of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Irkutsk region reports this.

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ForkLog 17 07.10.2020

Cherepovets police shut down illegal casinos posing as bitcoin exchanges

Two natives of Yaroslavl, who organized in Cherepovets a network of gambling establishments disguised as venues for trading cryptocurrency, have been detained by law enforcement. The Investigative Committee of the Vologda region reports.

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ForkLog 23 06.10.2020

Russia breaks into the top five for cashless payments

During the pandemic, Russians actively moved away from cash toward cashless payments. Russia ranked fourth in the global ranking compiled by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for the rate of cashless adoption.

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ForkLog 9 05.10.2020

Voronezh woman loses 1.1 million rubles in crypto-investment scam

Voronezh investigators have opened a criminal case into fraud after a local resident reported being harmed during an attempt to invest in cryptocurrencies. The information was posted on the Voronezh region's Interior Ministry website.

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ForkLog 15 26.09.2020

BNY Mellon Accused of Involvement in OneCoin Cryptocurrency Pyramid

The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has become one of the defendants in a class-action suit by investors against the organizers of the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid, in which $4 billion disappeared.

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ForkLog 21 25.09.2020

Cloud-mining salons in Tatarstan did not survive the pandemic

"Crypto exchange" Walcoin, which for almost two years has conducted gambling-like activity in Naberezhnye Chelny under the guise of cloud-mining salons, has closed due to a lack of customers. Local media report this.

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ForkLog 7 25.09.2020

Moscow facial-recognition system to be deployed in ten more Russian cities

NtechLab, the company behind Moscow's facial-recognition system, has launched pilot versions of similar systems in ten major Russian cities, Kommersant reports.

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ForkLog 11 23.09.2020

Russian Deputy Prime Minister names blockchain a priority technology for development

Among the technologies whose development will be a priority for Russia in the coming years, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov named blockchain, TASS reports.

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ForkLog 12 22.09.2020

Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office blocks another privacy-focused email service

The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has added the Mailbox domain and IP addresses of the privacy-focused mail service to the register of banned information, according to «RosKomSvoboda».

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ForkLog 19 22.09.2020

Khakassia’s top narcotics officer jailed for eight years for a bitcoin-bribe

The former head of the Khakassia Interior Ministry's drug-control department has been found guilty of receiving a bribe in cryptocurrency worth 52,000 rubles and of disclosing state secrets. The press service of the Investigative Committee of Krasnoyarsk Krai said.

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ForkLog 10 21.09.2020

Russia seeks to ban concealing website names; experts call the bill ‘strange’

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation has tabled a bill banning the use on Russian territory of encryption protocols that hide the names of the websites and pages visited.

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