Cryptos in Russia will be obliged to identify a person on a passport – Bits Media

The head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov said, that the authorities are discussing the need for a mandatory verification of users, In fact, equalizing legal crypto -rhins to banks.

At the Yekaterinburg Forum "Cybersecurity in Finance" The parliamentarian said, that on cryptocurrency exchanges it will be necessary to identify users. We are talking about the provision of passport data, How is commercial banks do. Deputies are now discussing the refinement of the mining bill, to make liability for illegal transfers in digital assets.

“If we legalize cryptocurrencies, That is obvious, They must use the identification mechanism, Working through him. The identification system should be similar to that, what is in banks. We are approaching serious decisions, In this case, the topic of responsibility for the work of the law should be prescribed. So that the infrastructure begins to work and the mechanisms work, At the same time, the responsibility of those, who does not follow the law, Working on a crypto "", - emphasized the chairman of the Duma committee.

Earlier in the Ural Forum, the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov spoke, who stated, that the main state bank revealed the record volumes of illegal cryptocurrency transfers, who go through exchangers at Moscow City.