Cryptocurrency operations: topical issues of theory and practice of criminal law application
https://doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2019.101.4.128-139
Abstract
The paper considers the opinions of domestic and foreign authors on the concept of cryptocurrency, the principles of its operation and the need to establish its legal status. The author’s definition of cryptocurrency is formulated and the thesis that cryptocurrency can be classified as «other property» is justified. The author analyzes the most common court decisions in criminal cases. Based on a study of foreign experience in the fight against illegal circulation of cryptocurrency, it was found that initially, before the emergence of mass demand for cryptocurrency all over the world, demand for them was observed in the criminal environment to pay for the supply of narcotic drugs and weapons, to finance terrorism and legalize (launder) income obtained in a criminal manner, in connection with which many people subsequently mistakenly assumed that transactions with cryptocurrencies are anonymous. Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency is far from being anonymous: each transaction carried out in a distributed network is permanently recorded in a public blockchain, which helps to solve crimes in this area. The adoption in the Russian Federation of a fundamental law containing the necessary terms and concepts regarding cryptocurrency activities and regulating the status of cryptocurrency in Russia will further develop measures for the criminal law protection of objects of encroachment that are currently not regulated in any way.
About the Author
M. M. Dolgieva
Moscow Region Prosecutor’s Office
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Law, Junior Counselor of Justice, Senior Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutors Department of the Criminal and Judicial Administration,
107031, Moscow, Maly Kiselny pereulok, d. 5, stroenie 1
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Dolgieva M.M. Cryptocurrency operations: topical issues of theory and practice of criminal law application. Actual Problems of Russian Law. 2019;(4):128-139. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2019.101.4.128-139
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