{"id":54408,"date":"2021-12-09T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54408"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:17:27","slug":"prosecutor-generals-office-backs-introduction-of-the-digital-ruble-to-decriminalise-online-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/prosecutor-generals-office-backs-introduction-of-the-digital-ruble-to-decriminalise-online-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor-General&#8217;s Office backs introduction of the digital ruble to decriminalise online payments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The digital ruble will help decriminalise online settlements. <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20211209\/krasnov-1762837054.html\">RIA Novosti reports<\/a> citing a statement by the Prosecutor General of Russia, Igor Krasnov.<\/p>\n<p>The office said it fully supports introducing the digital ruble as an additional form of money.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The main advantage of the central bank digital currency lies in a substantial increase in the transparency of settlements, and consequently in reducing the risks of corruption and money laundering,&#8221; Krasnov noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Prosecutor General added that modern technologies themselves offer new possibilities for tackling existing criminal threats.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office had already <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russian-prosecutor-general-says-the-digital-ruble-could-play-a-key-role-in-public-procurement\">stated<\/a> that the national digital currency would increase the transparency of government procurement.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Russia and the Ministry of Finance confirmed plans to launch the digital ruble as a third form of money <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/accessibility-and-traceability-how-the-bank-of-russia-sees-the-digital-ruble\">by 2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Testing of the new financial instrument will take place <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-names-12-banks-to-be-first-to-test-the-digital-ruble\">across twelve banks<\/a> in the first quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The digital ruble will help decriminalise online settlements, according to the Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54409,"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":[1165,1138,1593,27],"class_list":["post-54408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-digital-ruble","tag-opinions","tag-prosecutor-generals-office","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54408","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=54408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54410,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54408\/revisions\/54410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}