在俄罗斯工业和贸易部长丹尼斯·曼图罗夫表示俄罗斯肯定会将加密货币作为一种支付手段合法化后不到一周，俄罗斯圣彼得堡市法院就做出了合法承认数字资产的判决。
Piron 和 Yevgeny Prigozhin 分别被圣彼得堡 Pyotr 市法院判处 9 年和 7 年监禁，罪名是向另一名男子勒索约 100 万美元的数字资产。
据加密新闻媒体 RBC 称，圣彼得堡市法院在整个审判过程中承认加密货币是一种支付方式。据检察官称，该裁决是第一次，因为俄罗斯政府尚未决定加密货币的法律地位。
2018 年，冒充执法人员的罪犯为了勒索钱财，威胁要对 Shemet 提起刑事诉讼。
这对夫妇实际上不是安全人员，在进行虚假逮捕后，他们从 Shemet 勒索了 500 万卢布（9 万美元）和 5500 万卢布（100 万美元）的数字资产。
其中一名罪犯 Pyotr Piron 向受害人 G.A. 作了自我介绍。 Shemet，四年前担任联邦安全局 (FSB) 官员。根据故事，他威胁要对 Shemet 提起刑事诉讼，以便从他那里提取法定货币和加密货币的钱。
皮隆向同伙、俄罗斯内政部前雇员叶夫根尼·普里戈任求助，因为谢梅特认为皮隆不是安全人员，拒绝给他所要的钱。
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他们通知 Shemet，将对非法加密货币流通进行调查。他们在 2018 年夏天组织了对加密货币所有者的虚假逮捕，他在酷刑威胁下交出了法定现金和加密货币缓存。
市法院的初步判决没有考虑被勒索的加密货币。该裁决称加密货币：
“加密货币不是俄罗斯联邦境内的支付手段，因此不能被视为公民权利的客体和犯罪主体。”
上诉后，最高法院裁定加密货币仍可用作支付方式，并将案件退回一审法院。
市法院宣布了一项修改后的决定，其中包括加密货币支付，但没有修改被告的刑期。
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本月早些时候，圣彼得堡的一名地区法官允许执法人员在另一起刑事案件中没收被盗的加密货币。调查人员要求没收嫌疑人的两打加密货币钱包，其中包含 10 亿卢布的以太币。
俄罗斯通过了一项新的加密货币法，虽然不像以前的禁令那么严格，但对使用加密货币作为现金形式进行了严格限制。
尊敬的俄罗斯工贸部长丹尼斯·曼图罗夫，著名的 上周政府和央行将“迟早”将加密货币作为一种支付手段合法化，这意味着政府和央行正在接近解决方案。
莫斯科已表示打算创建中央银行数字货币，但此前不鼓励使用私人加密货币。
据圣彼得堡检察官办公室称，该判决将为俄罗斯政府未来就比特币和其他数字资产的法律地位作出决定树立先例。
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