{"id":60630,"date":"2022-04-26T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T10:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60630"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:26:26","slug":"russian-prosecutor-general-proposes-incorporating-cryptocurrencies-into-criminal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-prosecutor-general-proposes-incorporating-cryptocurrencies-into-criminal-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Prosecutor-General proposes incorporating cryptocurrencies into criminal law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Russian Prosecutor-General&#8217;s Office, Igor Krasnov, said that digital currencies should be included in criminal legislation to facilitate investigations into theft of such assets and to enable arrests. The statement was reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/obschestvo\/14476249\\\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Krasnov, the number of crimes involving virtual assets has risen:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cIn this regard, in my view, their inclusion in criminal and criminal-procedural legislation is required in order to recognize them as objects of encroachment and to impose restrictive measures on digital currencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the Prosecutor-General&#8217;s Office proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russia-proposes-treating-cryptocurrencies-as-property\">to treat cryptocurrencies as property<\/a> for criminal proceedings under the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p>Krasnov said his department has prepared norms that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russia-develops-rules-for-confiscating-cryptocurrencies\">will allow recognizing digital assets as the subject of crime and confiscating them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news on cryptocurrencies, exchange rates, and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Russian Prosecutor-General&#8217;s Office, Igor Krasnov, stated that digital currencies should be included in criminal law to investigate theft of such assets and enable arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60631,"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":[1593,27],"class_list":["post-60630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-prosecutor-generals-office","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630","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=60630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60632,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630\/revisions\/60632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}