Security in the Sphere of Virtual Currency Turnover
The development of information and telecommunication technologies transforming all spheres of modern society naturally did not bypass the area of financial and credit relations. Relatively recently, the term “Fintech” (meaning new financial technologies) appeared and became firmly established. At the last World Economic Forum in Davos its participants spoke not just about Fintech but about the revolution in the sphere of financial relations. One of the consequences of the ongoing revolution became the invention and a rapid increase in the scale of the turnover of so-called “virtual money”. In this paper, the main concepts in the field of the virtual currency turnover are given and the types of virtual currency and lines of its use are indicated. The main types of incidents are determined that can arise in the course of its use, including the types of possible crimes and their qualifications under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In conclusion, examples of individual criminal cases are given and the imperfection of the current laws as well as certain gaps in them are noted.