While you can: Prosecutor General's Office persuaded the Ministry of Finance to abandon plans to criminalize Bitcoin operations
The Russian government has abandoned plans to criminalize the turnover of money substitutes, one of which, according to the Russian authorities, is Bitcoin. Interfax reported this at the end of the last working week, citing a trusted source close to the financial and economic bloc of the government.
Paradoxically, this time, the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General’s Office jointly concluded that there were no grounds for criminal responsibility for operations with money surrogates and “quasi-currencies”, and the “evil policeman” was convinced by the Ministry of Finance - at a joint meeting with the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the government apparatus held last week.
The question of the ban on cryptocurrency has been discussed by the Russian authorities for the last two years. We already wrote how last fall the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation drafted a draft law providing for administrative punishment first, and after regular edits - criminal prosecution and imprisonment of the guilty, for up to 4 years - for the conversion of "money surrogates" and financial companies, a draft law provided for up to seven years in prison with the deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions). In June, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev reported that the ministry was still thinking about the wording in the draft law on money surrogates.
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Following the meeting, the Ministry of Finance was instructed to finalize the text of the report to the President of the Russian Federation on the topic of limiting the turnover of cash surrogates and submit it to the government in the second half of August.
The meeting came to the conclusion that such easing would require "additional monitoring of the use of money substitutes and an analysis of the risks of their use for criminal purposes." Taking into account the new data, the Ministry of Finance, if necessary, can propose new amendments to regulatory acts.
Mitigation of the tone of statements, in general, is out of the general style of behavior of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, which initially insisted on the prohibition of digital currencies. Thus, in July of this year, the Deputy Minister of Finance, Alexei Moiseyev, unexpectedly announced that, in legal terms, cryptocurrencies can be equated in status to other foreign currencies.
“Can Russian citizens own electronic wallets and pay with Bitcoins in countries where their turnover is not prohibited by law?” Why not? We are trying to formulate the law in such a way as to allow citizens to carry out operations with cryptocurrency abroad and sell bitcoins for other foreign currencies for the purpose of making a profit, ” said Alexey Moiseyev.
Finally, we recall that even the previous, punitive proposals of the Ministry of Finance did not suggest penalties for mining cryptocurrency or converting one cryptocurrency into another.
Mine is not too late:
Paradoxically, this time, the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General’s Office jointly concluded that there were no grounds for criminal responsibility for operations with money surrogates and “quasi-currencies”, and the “evil policeman” was convinced by the Ministry of Finance - at a joint meeting with the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the government apparatus held last week.
The question of the ban on cryptocurrency has been discussed by the Russian authorities for the last two years. We already wrote how last fall the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation drafted a draft law providing for administrative punishment first, and after regular edits - criminal prosecution and imprisonment of the guilty, for up to 4 years - for the conversion of "money surrogates" and financial companies, a draft law provided for up to seven years in prison with the deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions). In June, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev reported that the ministry was still thinking about the wording in the draft law on money surrogates.
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Following the meeting, the Ministry of Finance was instructed to finalize the text of the report to the President of the Russian Federation on the topic of limiting the turnover of cash surrogates and submit it to the government in the second half of August.
The meeting came to the conclusion that such easing would require "additional monitoring of the use of money substitutes and an analysis of the risks of their use for criminal purposes." Taking into account the new data, the Ministry of Finance, if necessary, can propose new amendments to regulatory acts.
Mitigation of the tone of statements, in general, is out of the general style of behavior of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, which initially insisted on the prohibition of digital currencies. Thus, in July of this year, the Deputy Minister of Finance, Alexei Moiseyev, unexpectedly announced that, in legal terms, cryptocurrencies can be equated in status to other foreign currencies.
“Can Russian citizens own electronic wallets and pay with Bitcoins in countries where their turnover is not prohibited by law?” Why not? We are trying to formulate the law in such a way as to allow citizens to carry out operations with cryptocurrency abroad and sell bitcoins for other foreign currencies for the purpose of making a profit, ” said Alexey Moiseyev.
Finally, we recall that even the previous, punitive proposals of the Ministry of Finance did not suggest penalties for mining cryptocurrency or converting one cryptocurrency into another.
Mine is not too late:
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/396741/
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