{"id":50058,"date":"2021-09-23T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50058"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:56:16","slug":"russian-prosecutor-general-calls-for-international-cooperation-to-combat-the-criminal-use-of-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-prosecutor-general-calls-for-international-cooperation-to-combat-the-criminal-use-of-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Prosecutor-General calls for international cooperation to combat the criminal use of cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prosecutor-General of Russia, Igor Krasnov, called on colleagues to coordinate the fight against cybercrime, including hacker attacks and the criminal use of cryptocurrencies. He <a href=\"https:\/\/epp.genproc.gov.ru\/web\/gprf\/mass-media\/news?item=65423447\">stated<\/a> during a meeting with the president of the International Association of Prosecutors, Cholem-Kyu Hwan.<\/p>\n<p>Krasnov also discussed with Azerbaijan&#8217;s Attorney General Kamran Aliyev ways to counter new cross-border crime schemes, including cyberattacks and ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>In July Krasnov described &#8216;the criminal use of cryptocurrencies in the country&#8217; as a serious challenge and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russia-to-draft-amendments-on-possible-confiscation-of-cryptocurrencies\">stated that planned amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the confiscation of digital assets,<\/a> obtained from crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, former CIA officer Michael Morell, based on his own research, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ex-cia-officer-says-the-scale-of-illicit-bitcoin-operations-is-exaggerated\">said that the scale of illegal Bitcoin operations was exaggerated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chainalysis, in 2020 the volume of crime-related cryptocurrency transactions fell to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-volume-of-crime-related-cryptocurrency-transactions-fell-to-10-billion\">0.34%<\/a>, and their share of the turnover of decentralized exchanges by the end of last year<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-share-of-crime-related-transactions-in-dex-turnover-was-0-02\"> stood at 0.024%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in 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>The Prosecutor-General of Russia, Igor Krasnov, called on colleagues to coordinate the fight against cybercrime, including hacker attacks and the criminal use of cryptocurrencies. He said this during a meeting with the president of the International Association of Prosecutors, Cholem-Kyu Hwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"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":[1154,1593],"class_list":["post-50058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-prosecutor-generals-office"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50058","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=50058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50059,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50058\/revisions\/50059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}