CRYPTOCURRENCY CRIMES: CURRENT PROSECUTION ISSUES
Cryptocurrency is a subject or a means of committing crimes, but the practice of investigating criminal cases about crimes committed using cryptocurrency is insignificant. This is due to the novelty of complex economic relations, the gap in their legal regulation, the anonymity of the transactions performed and the difficulties in identifying them in the information and telecommunications space. However, due to the increasing interest in cryptocurrency, it is becoming more widespread, the ways of committing crimes with it are improving. The article describes the existing situation related to the investigation of crimes using cryptocurrency committed on the territory of the Russian Federation, which made it possible to typologize the methods of committing such acts, form a scientific understanding of the phenomenon under study, analyze and classify the identified problems of pre-trial proceedings and criminal prosecution of persons, suggest ways of their permissions.