Cryptocurrency as a crime subject: problems of qualification and protection

The changed socio-political conditions, economic transformations, the rapid pace of life require a person to be able to make adequate and responsible decisions, to show business initiative and activity. However, it is not always possible to comply with these conditions. Criminals do not wait for the legislator to regulate the turnover of cryptocurrencies. They are already using them for illegal purposes, including to bribe officials. And such cases should receive a criminal legal assessment. As the researchers note, “the classic bribe is becoming a thing of the past. Corruption has taken the form of offshore transactions and operations with cryptocurrencies, conflicts of interest and employment of relatives in commercial structures “In this case, protective mechanisms of criminal law should operate, since the subject of criminal law regulation is relations arising not only from the fact of committing a crime, but also from situations infliction of criminally significant harm under circumstances precluding the criminality of the act. The work is an independent completed research. The author has studied a significant theoretical and regulatory framework. In this work, the list of sources used is 11 items. The author correctly and clearly identified the main and necessary for the analysis of scientists’ thoughts, and also correctly selected a list of normative legal acts regulating this area. The research methodology was chosen correctly and is aimed at achieving the tasks indicated in the work. The structure of the work corresponds to the logic of the research. Contains a well-presented theoretical base, a fairly detailed analysis of regulatory legal acts, subject empirical data, is characterized by a consistent presentation of the material with the appropriate conclusions.