Over the past year, 40% more criminal cases related to cryptocurrencies were opened in Russia, reaching 954
It is noted that most of these crimes were related to drug trafficking, money laundering and gambling.
If we talk not only about criminal cases, thenthere were also cases of demands “for the recovery of unjust enrichment” when acquiring cryptocurrency. However, courts in such proceedings, as a rule, refuse to recover about five times more often, explaining this by the fact that cryptocurrency transactions are a high-risk area.
With regards to the spent electricity, there is alsodata. So, over the past 2021, the Russians paid about 61.5 million rubles in nine civil cases related to the non-contractual use of electricity for cryptocurrency mining.