“Operations with the purchase or sale of cryptocurrencies will be possible only if the client is identified,” the ministry said in a statement.
It is assumed that operators, as well as banks, will be required to inform Rosfinmonitoring about identified suspicious transactions.
In mid-February, the chairman of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the Central Bank would try to convince the government of its arguments on the regulation of cryptocurrencies.