graduate student
Russian Federation
UDC 343.985.7
UDC 343.7
Investigating money laundering by means of information and telecommunication technologies is considered a complex multi-step process, one of the main aspects of which is the interaction between investigative units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and commercial organizations dealing with the placement, circulation and management of payment tools in the form of virtual assets, including digital currency. According to the author's conclusions, digital currency is one of the most widespread objects of the considered offence. An important part of interaction between investigative units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and virtual assets service providers is making inquiry on the crime event, the identity of the criminal, the possible location of the legalized money or other property; as well as information on the ways to prevent the means of user authorization and authentication, alleged to the crime committed. In spite of the important role of the data in the form of a response to inquiry under the investigation of this crime, judicial and investigative practice suggests the presence of a number of mistakes, made by investigative officers in drafting and sending inquiries to virtual asset service providers; and it causes refusals to comply with their requests and appeals, delays in the preliminary investigation and a general lack of quality of its proceedings. In this paper, tactical and organizational features to form and to file similar requests under the criminal inves-tigation, relevant for the written request, are considered.
money laundering, information technology, interaction, digital traces of crime, inquiry directed, digital currency, virtual asset service providers
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