The Russian Central Bank included 2,600 wallet addresses for suspected illegal activities in a specialized information system

On 28 August, it was reported by Bits media that the Russian Central Bank had indicated that 2,600 encrypted wallet addresses suspected of illegal activities had been incorporated into the specialized information system, with the relevant addresses being legal entities, projects and self-employed persons. The cumulative value of these addresses is approximately 1 billion roubles. The system is open to government agencies and law enforcement authorities, whereby banks and law enforcement agencies can assess client risk images and conduct financial investigations; if transactions are linked to the address of the system, the relevant bank transactions may be intercepted. According to the Central Bank of Russia, 74 per cent of the relevant cases concerned digital assets used by financial pyramids and fraudsters, including investment frauds in the name of encrypted currency, mining, false data centres and the issuance of coins by fraudsters, as well as the United States dollar-stabilized loan service that bypassed the official financial system。