The Ministry of Finance is going to introduce criminal liability for settlements with cryptocurrencies

Today, the Ministry of Finance announced its intention to introduce criminal liability for organizing settlements with cash surrogates on a large scale, Kommersant writes . According to the deputy head of department, Alexei Moiseyev, the corresponding amendments are planned to be introduced into the legislation next year. According to the Constitution of Russia, the ruble is the means of settlement in the country.

“It follows from this that it is impossible to pay for anything else - not in the“ Monopoly ”tokens, either with money from World of Tanks, or with any other receipts, subscriptions, notes. It can be calculated only by the ruble of the Russian Federation. If you have a few rubles of the Russian Federation, you can change your bitcoins for rubles and go for rubles to buy a pie in LavkaLavka. You can do this, but you can’t come to LavkaLavka and pay with Bitcoins - this is a constitutional principle, ”the deputy head of the Ministry of Finance said .

According to the official, the punishment will be mainly administrative. But in the case of calculations with the use of large sums, there may be criminal liability. “Hello to the 90s, when money surrogates were organized at some system level. Then it will be right up to the criminal one, ”said Mr. Moiseyev. In order to introduce a system of penalties for Bitcoin calculations, officials plan to introduce amendments to the Administrative Offenses Code, the Law on the Central Bank and the Criminal Code to be developed by the Ministry of Finance.
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Now the government together with the Central Bank are preparing on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin amendments that regulate the rules of emission, mining, circulation and placement of cryptocurrencies by analogy with the primary placement of securities.