The Russian Ministry of Finance has proposed this week a new set of penalties for the use of virtual currency in the Federation. People using Bitcoin (BTC) and like him they can be sentenced to up to four years' forced labor.
The first set of proposed changes was presented a month ago - then, however, the maximum penalty was two years of work, or 500,000 rubles (entrepreneurs). For individuals longest period of forced labor was set at one year and the amount of average annual wages (300 thousand rubles).
According to the report, The Economist, 43% of men and 60% of women inmates in Russian prisons are transported to labor camps - some of them operating since the Soviet-era gulags.
Last year, the Ministry of Finance were offered only penalties - their height depended on whether the entity in violation of the prohibition of marketing Bitcoin is a natural person, company, or government officials. The ban concerned the extraction of BTC, marketing and dissemination of information about virtual currencies.
