Putin instructed to take control of operations with cryptocurrency

At an extended meeting of the board of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Russian President VladimirPutin instructed the prosecutor's office and Rosfinmonitoring to pay special attention to the cross-border movement of digital financial assets, the Kremlin press service reported.

The president said that criminals are increasingly using digital currencies, and this should attract special attention from law enforcement agencies.

With the adoption of the Law "On Digital Financial Assets", which entered into force on January 1, 2021, active attempts began to take digital assets and cryptocurrencies under full control.

19 February Head of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchinreported to Vladimir Putin on the development of a service for tracking criminal transactions with cryptocurrency. According to Chikhanchin, the department has developed a "transparent blockchain" that allows you to see all transactions with cryptocurrencies and reveal those who perform them.

It should be noted that the strengthening of control over finances affected not only cryptocurrencies.

On January 10, amendments to the federalthe law of the Russian Federation against laundering of proceeds from criminal activity. Were taken under control of postal orders and withdrawal of money from the accounts of mobile operators for an amount exceeding 100 thousand rubles. At the same time, information on transactions worth more than 600 thousand rubles will be automatically transferred to Rosfinmonitoring.

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