{"id":54356,"date":"2021-12-09T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54356"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:00:38","slug":"russia-develops-rules-for-confiscating-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-develops-rules-for-confiscating-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia develops rules for confiscating cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prosecutor-General’s Office of Russia is working on laws regulating the circulation of cryptocurrencies. Reports<\/a> by RIA Novosti, citing the agency’s head, Igor Krasnov.<\/p>\n

The norms have already been prepared that would allow digital assets to be recognised as the object of a crime and to be confiscated.<\/p>\n

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“We have developed amendments to a number of regulatory legal acts so that cryptocurrencies circulating illegally are not only recognised as the object of a crime, but there is a legal possibility to seize and confiscate them,” Krasnov said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Prosecutor-General noted that case law in criminal matters generally recognises digital currencies as property, that is, as the subject of a bribe, but this is insufficient for forming a unified and stable practice in applying the law.<\/p>\n

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“This should be facilitated by introducing the concept of cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets into the criminal-law space by enshrining the relevant norms in legislation,” he explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In November, the Prosecutor-General’s Office prepared a recognize cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets as property<\/a> bill for proceedings under the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n

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