on a single portal of draft legal acts published Finance Ministry’s proposal to introduce administrative responsibility for the use of money substitutes – under this definition, for example, fall Bitcoins. On Monday “Vedomosti».
A representative of the Central Bank in the comments said that the existing legislation already provides for a ban on the issue of money substitutes, but does not give a clear definition of this concept. Ministry of Finance in its proposal corrects this by offering the following wording: Monetary substitutes – is “objects of property rights, including in electronic form, ispolzuemye as a means of payment and (or) exchange and not directly predusmotrennye federal law».
The Finance Ministry proposes to introduce responsible for both the distribution of Bitcoins themselves, and software for their emissions. Finance Ministry proposes to establish for these offenses the penalty for individuals in the amount of 5 thousand to 50 thousand rubles for legal entities – from 500 thousand to one million rubles.
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