{"id":61036,"date":"2022-05-05T13:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61036"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:44:41","slug":"bank-of-russia-more-than-58-of-pyramids-identified-in-q1-2022-linked-to-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bank-of-russia-more-than-58-of-pyramids-identified-in-q1-2022-linked-to-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Russia: More than 58% of pyramids identified in Q1 2022 linked to cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of the pyramids identified in Russia in the first quarter of 2022 were linked to investments in digital currencies. The Bank of Russia&#8217;s head of the department for countering illicit practices Valery Lyakh said this, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/14551915\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, schemes based on investments in allegedly digital instruments and crypto assets received a new impulse amid financial uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>More than 58% of such pyramids identified during the reporting period were linked to cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Lyakh also noted a rise in the popularity of &#8220;save funds&#8221; offers in foreign jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cRestrictions tied to international settlements have become a fashionable gimmick to persuade someone to transfer money to the personal account of a private intermediary, via a phone number,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in the article, the Bank of Russia also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/every-other-ponzi-scheme-in-2021-drew-russians-in-with-cryptocurrencies\">stated<\/a> that more than half of pyramids operating online attracted funds in cryptocurrencies or offered investments in various non-existent digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of the financial pyramids identified in Russia in the first quarter of 2022 were linked to investments in digital currencies. This was stated by Valery Lyakh, head of the Bank of Russia&#8217;s department for countering illicit practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61037,"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":[345,1163],"class_list":["post-61036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bank-of-russia","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61036","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=61036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61038,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61036\/revisions\/61038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}