{"id":23631,"date":"2025-05-03T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-legal-reforms-could-impact-bitcoin-traders-warns-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:08:48","slug":"russian-legal-reforms-could-impact-bitcoin-traders-warns-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-legal-reforms-could-impact-bitcoin-traders-warns-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Legal Reforms Could Impact Bitcoin Traders, Warns Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2, the Russian government <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/LexagencyLawStream\/1955\">submitted<\/a> amendments to the State Duma, intensifying penalties for &#8220;drops&#8221; under Article <span data-descr=\"\u2018Illegal circulation of payment funds\u2019\" class=\"old_tooltip\">187 of the Russian Criminal Code<\/span>. The potential for broad interpretation of these proposed regulations, if enacted, poses a threat to cryptocurrency traders. This was stated by Ignat Likhunov, founder of the legal agency Cartesius, during the &#8220;Podcast Society&#8221; on ForkLog&#8217;s YouTube channel. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that the legislator&#8217;s goal is to combat drops. The new bill outlines specific conditions for criminal liability for individuals who transfer electronic payment means to others, including bank cards, for conducting illegal operations. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIllegal operations, as noted in the commentary, involve the transfer, issuance, or receipt of money without grounds provided by law, other legal acts, or agreements,\u201d the lawyer noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, while previously in Russia there was liability for carders who forged payment orders of accountants and wrote malicious software, now it is being introduced for transferring a card &#8220;from Vasya to Petya.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cSince law enforcers like to interpret laws very broadly, to their advantage, this provides a lot of room for abuse, although it will be an effective way to combat conditional dropping,\u201d Likhunov warned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the bill&#8217;s provisions, it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/LexagencyLawStream\/1944\">proposes introducing<\/a> criminal liability of up to three years for drops, and up to six years for drop facilitators and traders. <\/p>\n<p>The lawyer reminded that many Russian citizens require cryptocurrencies due to sanctions and the political situation. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe question is: will a transaction involving the sale of cryptocurrency itself fall under [illegal operation]? If so, then everyone could be jailed. In detention centers, drug addicts will be replaced by drops and cryptocurrency traders,\u201d Likhunov stated. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He added that since 2022, he has personally refrained from card transfers when selling digital assets, opting exclusively for cash. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e99hD_Ch9_c?si=LPVIN7V4vq7GSyxS\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to the podcast:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%89%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE\/id1794909864\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/78X4DY4vd24hiHgmzjhuiZ\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e99hD_Ch9_c\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/ru\/show\/1001616811\">Deezer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.yandex.ru\/album\/35389560\">Yandex Music<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLVTwIlNOBqzeZHDtPzHkvVJw46qxHFw4T\">YouTube Music<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2, the Russian government submitted amendments to the State Duma, intensifying penalties for &#8220;drops&#8221; under Article 187 of the Russian Criminal Code. The potential for broad interpretation of these proposed regulations, if enacted, poses a threat to cryptocurrency traders. This was stated by Ignat Likhunov, founder of the legal agency Cartesius, during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1241],"class_list":["post-23631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-podcast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"37","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}