Russia proposed to introduce a criminal punishment for cryptocurrency on non -codium wallets - Bits Media

Association of Banks of Russia (Cloud) I proposed to start criminal cases on citizens, storing digital currency with anonymous cryptocurrenc.

Vice President Abr Anatoly Kozlachkov presented a legal model for the recovery of cryptocurrencies to Expert Council of the State Duma of the State Duma "On Legislative Regulation of Cryptocurrencies". In the Association, Anatoly Kozlachkov oversees legal administration.

Concept, proposed by Kozlachkov, provides for the creation of a closed circulation circuit of cryptocurrencies. In his opinion, This approach will allow the state to control the outputs of crypto assets to unregulated markets - or regulated, but outside the jurisdiction of Russia. It is required to establish direct criminal liability for owning assets on non -codial cryptocurrencies and create an effective system for recovering:

“The proposed model from a legal point of view is most logical and will allow you to remove the contradiction between the approaches of the Bank of Russia and the Government”.

Vice President Abr told Izvestia, that there are serious problems with the recovery of cryptocurrency debtors and criminals, naughty. Initially, the concept was developed with the advisory assistance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and provided for the introduction of criminal liability for the fact of the fact of non -residential storage of cryptocurrency on non -coddal wallets:

“However, now the association is inclined to civil law, in which criminal liability should not advance for the ownership of such wallets, And for refusing to provide keys to authorized bodies ".

Anatoly Kozlachkov told, that when identifying connections with unlawful actions, Law enforcement agencies have long been resorting to the services of specialized companies, which can track the transaction chains in the blockchain and thus establish the belonging of crypto acts to specific persons. The price of one such service ranges about $10 000. We will need domestic state analogues of such a search system, made it clear to the vice president of abr.

It is assumed, that the search for crypto assets will take on a special state service with the functions. Within the framework of the proposed ABR model, cyber -standards will interact with law enforcement agencies, bailiffs and citizens, looking for property within the framework of civil processes.

The Association sent its concept to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Finance and Rosfinmonitoring. Rosfinmonitoring "Izvestia" was reported, that the offer of bankers deserves attention, The Ministry of Finance announced readiness to consider the initiative in the prescribed manner, The Bank of Russia refused to comment.

The deputies and experts surveyed by Izvestia have skeptically reacted to the idea of Abr and call it too radical and difficult. According to experts, Such initiatives have been repeatedly nominated by law enforcement agencies, but never reached the actual execution due to the technical impossibility of implementing.

“You can introduce criminal liability, but tracking the presence of such wallets from citizens is unrealistic, Hacking them is also difficult, And in many cases it is impossible ", - I am sure the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics Roman Yankovsky.

The deputy head of the State Duma working group Andrei Lugovoi believes, that the Abr approach will only prevent the legalization of the cryptocurrency market.

The other day, the Russian government introduced a draft law on the features of the taxation of operations with digital financial assets to the State Duma (CFA). The bill is amendments to the Tax Code, which clarify the taxation tax on income organizations, value added tax (VAT) and tax on individuals (NDFL) all operations with the Tsf.