{"id":53078,"date":"2021-11-18T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T07:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53078"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:14:08","slug":"reports-say-the-fsb-raided-the-office-of-a-bitcoin-exchange-in-saint-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/reports-say-the-fsb-raided-the-office-of-a-bitcoin-exchange-in-saint-petersburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports say the FSB raided the office of a Bitcoin exchange in Saint Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 November, FSB officers in Saint Petersburg conducted a search in the Senator business centre, where the office of an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange is located. Local media, citing witnesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2021\/11\/17\/70259465\/?utm_source=tg\">reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the visit by the security forces occurred as part of a criminal case into the cashing out of cryptocurrency totaling about 1.5 billion rubles. The case allegedly concerns Article 171 of the Russian Criminal Code, &#8216;Illegal Entrepreneurship&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Similar measures in connection with the same case are taking place in Moscow, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>During the search, tenants&#8217; access to the business centre was blocked.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has not issued an official statement on this.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the FSB published a draft order expanding the powers of the agency&#8217;s officers, which would also allow them <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russias-fsb-seeks-power-to-obtain-information-from-cryptocurrency-exchanges\">to direct requests<\/a> to operators of information systems that issue digital financial assets.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FSB officers in Saint Petersburg conducted a search in the Senator business centre, where the office of an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange is located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53079,"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":[1269,1257,27,1472],"class_list":["post-53078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-currency-exchanges","tag-russia","tag-search"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53078","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=53078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53080,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53078\/revisions\/53080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}