{"id":29739,"date":"2020-10-07T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29739"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:41:35","slug":"irkutsk-drug-dealer-charged-with-laundering-half-a-million-rubles-via-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/irkutsk-drug-dealer-charged-with-laundering-half-a-million-rubles-via-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Irkutsk drug dealer charged with laundering half a million rubles via Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">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.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In February 2020, police detained a 27-year-old suspect in drug distribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">During the investigation it emerged that the proceeds from illicit activity were received by the accused in bitcoins, which he subsequently sold through messaging apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to investigators, over several months he amassed around 500,000 rubles in this manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Criminal cases have been opened against the suspect for illegal distribution of narcotic drugs and laundering funds &#8216;obtained by the person as a result of committing the crime&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the former head of the narcotics control department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Khakassia <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/khakassias-top-narcotics-officer-jailed-for-eight-years-for-a-bitcoin-bribe\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">was found guilty<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> of receiving a bribe in cryptocurrency totaling 52,000 rubles and disclosing state secrets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full stream of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1444,27],"class_list":["post-29739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-law-enforcement","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29740,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions\/29740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}