{"id":34771,"date":"2021-01-15T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34771"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:06:59","slug":"investigative-committee-cryptocurrency-used-to-pay-for-contract-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/investigative-committee-cryptocurrency-used-to-pay-for-contract-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigative Committee: cryptocurrency used to pay for contract killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criminals use cryptocurrency to pay for contract killings, said Konstantin Komarda, head of the department for cybercrime investigations and high-tech crimes at the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/interviews\/10461383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TASS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, to convert cryptocurrencies into fiat, criminals use hundreds of electronic wallets registered under third-party individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTransactions are processed through 15\u201320 electronic wallets, where they are carefully obfuscated among tens of thousands of other operations before reaching the ultimate recipient,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Komarda also noted a significant rise in cybercrime. In his words, one in seven crimes in Russia is committed with the help of technology or in cyberspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said that cryptocurrencies are often used to finance their activities by terrorists.<\/span><\/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 feed 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>Criminals use cryptocurrency to pay for contract killings, said Konstantin Komarda, head of the department for cybercrime investigations and high-tech crimes at the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in an interview with TASS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34772,"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":[1154,1727],"class_list":["post-34771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-investigative-committee-of-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","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=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34773,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions\/34773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}