Grozin Sergey Sergeevich, Ostrovskikh Zhanna Vladimirovna

The article deals with the problem of the emergence and functioning of financial pyramids based on the use of digital assets, using the example of the «Finico» project. The main performance indicators are analyzed, as well as the reasons that influenced the success of this project, its scale and duration of existence are characterized. Particular attention is paid to the ways of organizing and carrying out illegal financial activities with signs of financial pyramids, and some measures are proposed to counter it. A short-term forecast of an increase in the number of crimes committed using information, telecommunications and digital technologies in this area is given.

financial pyramids, cryptocurrencies, national security, investments, Finiсo

Grozin Sergey Sergeevich – Assistant to the Deputy, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (1, Okhotny Ryad st., Moscow, 103265, Russian Federation), ResearcherID: ABE-1420-2021, ORCID: 0000-0002-8483-965X, е-mail: grozinproff@yandex.ru

Ostrovskikh Zhanna Vladimirovna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Criminal Law, Institute of Law, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664082, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-5663- 6230, e-mail: zh888@yandex.ru

Grozin S. S., Ostrovskih ZH.V. Osobennosti funkcionirovaniya finansovyh piramid s ispol'zovaniem cifrovyh aktivov (na primere proekta «Finiko»): kriminologicheskij analiz [Features of the functioning of financial pyramids using digital assets (using the example of the Finico project): criminological analysis] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2021, no 4(95), pp. 104–109.DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2021.4.104. (in Russian).

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