2020-2-18 16:24 |
The Russian central bank now considers any crypto exchange transaction as a money laundering risk
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A growing number of platforms allow Russian residents to purchase cryptocurrencies with local fiat money. Established cryptocurrency exchanges are not the most trouble-free option, however, as they often require extensive registration and rarely support popular payment methods in the region, unlike small online exchangers and peer-to-peer platforms.
2020-2-13 02:10 | |
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Several Russian scientists believe America created the Wuhan coronavirus to sabotage China while making boatloads of money off a cure. The post Many Russians Think America Created the Wuhan Coronavirus, and the Reasons May Shock You appeared first on CCN.com
2020-1-31 02:27 | |
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Russian Embassy is unhappy about Greece again ruling to extradite the alleged $4 billion Bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik to France
2019-12-21 20:07 | |
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The Central Bank of Tunisia is digitizing the Tunisian dinar and has announced the launch of the E-dinar, reported Russia’s local news agency, Tass, which it says will be the first central bank digital currency.
2019-11-9 20:44 | |
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The dominance of the U. S. dollar as the global reserve currency is being robustly challenged on all fronts. Other geopolitical powers and smaller but important players are unwilling to accept the political influence Washington exerts through its fiat money.
2019-10-11 12:40 | |
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Coinspeaker Russian ZP Legal Claims They Can Recover Mt. Gox’s $2 Billion Lost in Bitcoin HackRussian law firm Zheleznikov and Partners has proposed a way to recover up to 200,000 Bitcoin stolen from Mt.
2019-9-13 11:34 | |
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Russia won’t officially legalize digital currencies in the near future, according to the conclusions of the participants of a “round table” dedicated to crypto regulation. Issuance of Anything Besides Ruble is Still Illegal On Thursday, July 25, a panel of Russian officials and experts discussed the regulation of cryptocurrency.
2019-7-26 18:00 | |
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A Russian central bank official said that criminals rarely use cryptocurrency to withdraw stolen money
2019-6-25 23:35 | |
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Japan is tightening their anti-money laundering efforts to go after Bitcoin exchanges. Russian and Dutch governments are also becoming restrictive in their cryptocurrency regulations, particularly involving money laundering efforts.
2019-5-23 17:06 | |
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By CCN: A top official with Russia’s State Duma (the Russian Parliament) warned that bitcoin has the capacity to ruin governments because it could facilitate the offshoring of massive amounts of money.
2019-5-21 20:25 | |
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VKontakte (also known as “VK”), which is Russia’s version of Facebook, is planning to issue its own cryptocurrency. The project is currently under development, but a final decision has not yet been made.
2019-4-1 00:45 | |
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One of the operators of BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange and leading suspect in multi-billion money laundering scandal, Alexander Vinnik, is seeking to be extradited to Russia from Greece rather than to the United States or France.
2019-3-23 21:40 | |
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Hollywood already has a sinister opinion about bitcoin, even though few in the movie business probably know much about cryptocurrencies. The new film “Crypto” pushes the bitcoin-money laundering narrative — a stance that’s echoed in the few TV shows that reference virtual currencies.
2019-3-13 10:01 | |
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Fuck, it’s real. The official trailer for CRYPTO, Hollywood‘s attempt at a cryptocurrency movie, has finally dropped. Fuck fuck fuck fuck. CRYPTO (somehow) stars Kurt Russell, Luke Hemsworth, and Alexis Bledel.
2019-3-12 19:44 | |
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A $9 billion USD money laundering scandal was recently uncovered by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a group of investigative journalists. The scandal involved Troika, the largest private bank of Russia.
2019-3-7 00:09 | |
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Billionaire Eugene Kaspersky says bitcoin is a brilliant innovation, but the world is not ready for cryptocurrency just yet. However, the CEO of Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab believes that will change — in 100 years.
2019-3-5 20:22 | |
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Finnish public broadcaster YLE will air a damning program on March 4 that reveals Nordea Bank’s alleged involvement in a multi-million-dollar money laundering scheme. The program will show how dirty money, mostly from Russian criminals, passed through Nordea, the biggest lender in the Nordic region.
2019-3-5 21:30 | |
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The Russian Supreme Court ruled that converting cryptocurrencies obtained by criminal means to fiat money will now be prosecuted under anti-money laundering law
2019-2-27 23:09 | |
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The head of VTB Bank, a major Russian financial institution that sees the government as its majority shareholder, has compared bitcoin mining with counterfeiting. Andrei Kostin, who serves as the president and the chairman of the management board of VTB Bank, said Monday during an event that any person who prints digital money to replace Russian Ruble was counterfeiting the state-backed fiat.
2019-2-6 10:15 | |
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Using cryptocurrency debit cards to pay for goods and services does not contradict Russian law, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev was quoted as saying by local media. He believes these transactions are legal as the seller receives the money in Russian rubles.
2019-1-18 22:01 | |
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Last week, the news that Russia is considering investing huge amount of money into Bitcoin as a means to invade US sanctions spread like fire. Given the fact that Russia has been working on de-dollarization plans for a long time now while looking for an alternative reserve currency further put force behind this news. This […]
2019-1-17 20:25 | |
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The cryptocurrency industry has always been targeted by criminals and hackers. This new form of money can be moved around the world without too much friction, which makes for an appealing opportunity.
2019-1-15 06:11 | |
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Alexander Vinnik, the allegedly former operator of the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, could be sent to France after the country requested his extradition. The Supreme Court of Greece has supported this decision, according to a report released by the Russian news agency TASS.
2018-12-20 19:25 | |
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Russian lawmakers have revised another bill regarding the regulation of the industry built around cryptocurrencies. In its latest version, the draft law on crowdfunding sets the maximum amount of money ordinary Russians will be permitted to invest in projects such as ICOs at less than $9,000 per year.
2018-12-19 04:55 | |
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In 2013, to the chagrin of the U. S. government, Edward Snowden broke America’s laws of secrecy in dramatic fashion, unveiling metaphorical heaps of the NSA’s classified documents to the public at large.
2018-11-23 16:08 | |
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Huobi exchange, which just opened an office in Moscow, wants to lend money and rent space to Russian miners, shape the country's regulations and train local blockchain talent.
2018-11-18 15:00 | |
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Moscow has an estimated 1 percent or 120,000 people actively using cryptocurrency, according to a new survey from Yandex. Moscow Has 120,000 Bitcoin Users? The survey was a joint project from the local Information Technology Department (DIT) and payments service Yandex.
2018-11-15 22:00 | |
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2018-11-14 19:41 | |
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As Bitcoin approaches its 10th anniversary, its community, old and new, has begun taking stock of how a decade has come to alter or define the cryptocurrency — and what Bitcoin has done to alter or define the decade.
2018-11-7 19:56 | |
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A well-placed Russian official has called for global cryptocurrency standards to prevent money laundering and provide legitimacy to the industry while enforcing broad recommendations to control the sector, reported local news outlet Izvestia on October 29, 2018.
2018-10-31 22:00 | |
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Russia Tells Financial Action Task Force To Control Crypto Circulation The Financial Action Task Force is a Paris-based intergovernmental organization that was created in 1989 with the goal of helping in the development of standards that will help in the fight of money laundering around the world. Now, a regulator from the Russian government has […]
2018-10-30 03:57 | |
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The dark net, assassination markets, money laundering. Cryptocurrency and blockchain can sound like a dodgy place sometimes, at least we can trust the news outlets that report on them though… right? Wrong.
2018-10-26 13:37 | |
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Cryptocurrency, Investing–Cryptocurrency has long been under attack for a number common faults found with the industry. Many economists, including Nobel Prize winning academics, focus on the viability of crypto as a source of money as an alternative to traditional fiat.
2018-10-19 03:34 | |
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Nordea, the largest bank in the Nordic region, is reportedly suspected of being part of a major international money laundering scandal. The scheme allegedly involved a Russian client and took place over multiple years at an international branch of the bank that is now closed.
2018-10-5 09:40 | |
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Danske Bank, the Danish lender at the center of a giant Russian money laundering scandal, illegitimately processed more cash than the entire cryptocurrency market cap combined. One Bank, $235 Billion The astonishing figure, noted on social media by Morgan Creek Digital founder and partner Anthony Pompliano this weekend, comes as the true extent of the banking sector’s latest revelation remains unknown.
2018-10-1 16:00 | |
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Some people often like to compare the value of all Bitcoins with the monetary supply across different countries. Although the real purpose of such comparisons remains a bit unclear, there are some interesting statistics to keep tabs on.
2018-9-23 20:00 | |
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Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles has issued emergency ordinances against three separate fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes linked to Russian scammers. The orders were issued on September 18, 2018, against DGBK Ltd.
2018-9-20 00:05 | |
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Denmark’s largest bank, Danske Bank, reportedly knew that some of its Estonian branch’s clients were on the Russian government’s blacklist but did not close their accounts for two years.
2018-9-19 06:50 | |
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While Russian authorities struggle to define cryptocurrency and decide whether to ban it, regulate it or just ignore it, people buy and sell Bitcoins and other digital money on the black cryptocurrency market to the tune of millions of dollars on
2018-9-12 20:31 | |
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A California Senate bill awaiting Governor approval would make it illegal to create and operate a social media “bot” for the purpose of influencing a political vote or obtaining money unless it was made explicit that it was a bot.
2018-9-8 19:25 | |
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The Russian Central Bank sees in cryptocurrencies extremely high risks of money laundering, obtained by criminal means, and fraud.
2018-9-11 19:13 | |
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The main demand of the Russian financial authorities for cryptocurrency companies is compliance with money antilaundering rules and fundamental absence of fraud, said the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Finance.
2018-9-7 20:52 | |
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A cryptocurrency expert and former CEO of a major cryptocurrency exchange is now awaiting extradition in Greece, as new evidence suggests that he might be the missing link connecting Russian money with the 2016 election meddling.
2018-9-5 19:00 | |
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The Papusha Rocket technology team is poised to combine blockchain tech, ecology, and space technologies in changing the world. Russian scientist Anatoly, has created innovative technologies that could be used to recycle toxic waste into reusable energy such as kerosene, gasoline, and others, Papusha Rocket technology allows people to earn money while helping the environment […] The post Papusha Blockchain Technology Poised to Clean Up the Ecosystem appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-8-18 10:43 | |
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Two well-meaning Facebook vigilantes are in a battle against scam accounts, and Facebook‘s response seems to be “Yeah, good job. Now keep doing it. ” Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny are spending some of their precious free time finding fake accounts on the site — not the kind created by Russian trolls during the fake news blitz a few years ago, but the kind that use stolen photos to convince lonely hearts to send money to people they’ve never met.
2018-8-16 21:24 | |
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Greek Court Grants Russia’s Request To Expedite Fraud Suspect Alexander Vinnik. Vinnik, a Russian national accused of money laundering $4 billion in bitcoin through a cryptocurrency exchange, has been arrested in Greece after a United States grand jury on indicted him for fraud on Wednesday.
2018-7-31 12:13 | |
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Cryptocurrency investors are wasting their money on candy wrappers, according to the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Technologies and Mass Communication Leonid Levin.
2018-7-26 20:42 | |
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Russia Will Not Create Separate Laws For Bitcoin Owners And Cryptocurrency Miners While speaking with the local media, Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the Financial Markets Committee in Russia’s state Duma, stated that the government does not have plans to create any separate tax frameworks for crypto. According to him, people who get money from […]
2018-7-19 09:55 | |
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The US Intelligence long-hand reached the faraway shores of cryptocurrency-based political interference by Russia, exposing the dark underbelly of virtual currencies. Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel’s indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials for using bitcoin to launder money and fund obtrusive, political activities for strategic advantage over the USA.
2018-7-17 00:23 | |
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Recent 13F filings show Europe's second largest bank, BNP Paribas, has purchased Bitcoin exposure via a US spot Bitcoin ETF.
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