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Russian state agencies' use of crypto-sector data and legal instruments in criminal cases.
Bank of Russia's first crypto registers give Sberbank and VTB three of the nine slots. Both banks plan to open crypto trading to their clients by December, though Sberbank's listing so far covers custody alone.
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Bank of Russia draft rules would make banks list clients' crypto, sale income and mining proceeds on account statements from July 1, 2027. Officials file those statements with anti-corruption declarations, so their coins in licensed custody would reach the state on a bank's record.
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Sber says it will take USDT and Ether as loan collateral once the Bank of Russia permits public trading, which means the menu is set by the listing tests the central bank published on 11 August, not by the bank's appetite.
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MOEX says its first two perpetual futures, on bitcoin and ethereum indices, arrive in September, days after the digital currency law takes effect and with the approved asset list down to three.
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A data-sharing arrangement struck with Rosfinmonitoring in 2021 turned exchange records into evidence. The sum at issue was roughly $6,500.
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