Countering to Legalization of Funds, Obtained With the Help of Using Digital Financial Assets

Abstract: Currently, the Russian Federation is developing a regulatory framework, that controls the circulation of digital financial assets. Like most phenomena of progress, digital financial assets are very controversial: on the one hand, they contain many advantages for particular customers, but on the other hand, they are harmful to the society in general, because such characteristics as anonymity and speed of transactions attract criminals who are eager to legalize illegally obtained income. This article is devoted to such a complicated process as countering corruption and also to the measures that are taken in Russia to combat it. The issues of developing Russian digital legislation, that will be effective not only in theory, but also in practice, are also explored in this article. Moreover, the problems, that are not allow us to combat money laundering in an effective way are mentioned in the article too. Some of these problems are a conservative approach of law enforcement to the investigation of such types of crimes, fear of investigating professional schemes of money laundering and others