Social and legal conditionality of the criminalization of illegal activities involving the usage of digital financial assets

Introduction: the article presents a socio-legal concept justifying the need for criminal legal protection of public relations in the field of criminal use of virtual currency; legal and economic features and prerequisites for criminalizing such activities are highlighted; demonstrated the current state of judicial investigative practice, where the subject of acts is digital financial assets; arguments are presented that indicate the importance of improving the mechanisms of criminal law protection of interests in the field of ownership, use and disposal of digital financial assets. Materials and Methods: Criminal and State Law that show the essence of social regulations in digital financial assets turnover. International-legal basis are UN reports and the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering reports. The study was based on the comparative-legal, logical-legal and systemic-structural methods. The study materials were doctrinal and legislative sources concerning the issues of counteracting the criminal use of virtual currency...