{"id":83171,"date":"2023-08-16T18:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83171"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:33:25","slug":"two-belarusians-to-stand-trial-over-cryptocurrency-transactions-worth-around-800000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/two-belarusians-to-stand-trial-over-cryptocurrency-transactions-worth-around-800000\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Belarusians to stand trial over cryptocurrency transactions worth around $800,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Belarus, police identified cases of exchanging funds stolen from citizens into cryptocurrencies. The information was reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/mogilev.mvd.gov.by\/ru\/news\/9863\">\u043c\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u043e\u043c \u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, over two years a 22-year-old resident of Brest Region and a 37-year-old Minsk man received money onto their bank cards from criminal groups abroad that engaged in <span data-descr=\"phone fraud\" class=\"old_tooltip\">vishing<\/span> and phishing.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the suspects conducted transactions totaling more than 2 million Belarusian rubles (about $800,000), earning commissions from these operations.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that entrepreneurial activity involving the turnover of cryptocurrencies in Belarus is allowed only to residents of the Hi-Tech Park.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative protocols have been drawn up against the suspects for illegal entrepreneurial activity, and the materials have been forwarded to the court.<\/p>\n<p>They face a hefty fine and the seizure of the full amount that passed through the crypto wallets, to be paid to the state.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, it was reported that the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs is preparing amendments to the legislation for <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/belarus-plans-a-ban-on-peer-to-peer-cryptocurrency-exchanges\">ban on cryptocurrency exchanges<\/a> between individuals due to rising fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Belarus, police identified cases of exchanging funds stolen from citizens into cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83172,"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":[239,1154],"class_list":["post-83171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-belarus","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171","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=83171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83173,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171\/revisions\/83173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}