{"id":55803,"date":"2022-01-13T10:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T08:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55803"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:23:43","slug":"head-of-russias-investigative-committee-calls-for-mandatory-identification-of-cryptocurrency-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/head-of-russias-investigative-committee-calls-for-mandatory-identification-of-cryptocurrency-holders\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee calls for mandatory identification of cryptocurrency holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency holders should not remain anonymous due to the risks of such assets being used for criminal purposes. This was stated by Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/rg.ru\/2022\/01\/13\/bastrykin-prizyvaet-vvesti-obiazatelnuiu-identifikaciiu-polzovatelej-kriptovaliut.html\">\u00ab\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0433\u0430\u0437\u0435\u0442\u0430\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, crypto assets could be used to finance terrorism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cTherefore, the circulation of digital currency requires further legal regulation \u2014 first and foremost, mandatory identification of users of such currency is necessary,\u201d said Bastrykin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in December, the head of the Investigative Committee said that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/head-of-russias-investigative-committee-calls-to-classify-bitcoin-as-property\">cryptocurrencies must be recognised as property<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russias-investigative-committee-chief-proposes-codifying-cryptocurrency-seizure-in-law\">to introduce into legislation a procedure for their confiscation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Russian Prosecutor-General\u2019s Office, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russia-develops-rules-for-confiscating-cryptocurrencies\">they said that norms<\/a> are being prepared that would allow digital assets to be treated as the subject of a crime and seized.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency holders should not remain anonymous due to the risks of such assets being used for criminal purposes. This was stated by Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1269,1256,27],"class_list":["post-55803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-privacy-and-personal-data","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55803","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=55803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55805,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55803\/revisions\/55805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}