{"id":62719,"date":"2022-06-10T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T07:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=62719"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:39:03","slug":"cryptocurrency-related-criminal-cases-in-russia-rose-by-40-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cryptocurrency-related-criminal-cases-in-russia-rose-by-40-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency-related criminal cases in Russia rose by 40% in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Russia last year, RTM Group researchers counted 1,531 court cases related to cryptocurrencies, exchanges and mining. <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1347448\/natalia-ilina-mariia-kolobova\/koinova-pechat-v-rf-rezko-vyslo-kolichestvo-ugolovnykh-del-s-kriptoi\">\u00ab\u0418\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u044f\u00bb<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the cases (954) in 2021 were initiated under criminal articles. This figure is up 40% from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrencies most frequently appear in criminal cases concerning drug trafficking. Among other such proceedings involving crypto assets are money laundering and illegal gambling operations.<\/p>\n<p>A further quarter are civil cases, 9% are bankruptcy proceedings, and 5% are administrative.<\/p>\n<p>In civil disputes, the most common claims involve recovery of unjust enrichment in cryptocurrency purchases.<\/p>\n<p>RTM Group also noted that last year residents paid 61.5 million rubles in nine cases for unaccounted electricity use for mining.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the head of Russia&#8217;s General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, Igor Krasnov, said there was a need to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-prosecutor-general-proposes-incorporating-cryptocurrencies-into-criminal-law\">include digital currencies in the criminal code<\/a> to investigate cases of their theft and to enable arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The Federation Council proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/lawmakers-propose-tougher-penalties-for-crimes-involving-cryptocurrencies\">to strengthen accountability for crimes involving cryptocurrencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s 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>In Russia last year, RTM Group researchers counted 1,531 court cases involving cryptocurrencies, exchanges and mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62720,"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":[1154,167,27],"class_list":["post-62719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-research","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62719","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=62719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62721,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62719\/revisions\/62721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}