CRYPTOCURRENCY AS A PRIORITY MEANS OF TERRORISM FINANCING IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Svetlana Muradyan, Nikolay Pcholovsky, Grigory Sarbaev, Kristina Vinogradova, Vitaliy Vasyukov

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International terrorist organizations, while maintaining a significant financial potential, are increasingly looking for new sources of funding, following the trend of high rates of informatization of society. To date, the use of the Internet is one of the most effective means of managing forces and financial resources. To finance their activities, terrorists, in addition to actively using international Muslim humanitarian funds, speculating on stock exchanges, investing in real estate, in a number of legal sectors of the economy, as well as participating in the criminal business of a number of countries, began to actively use cryptocurrency. These funds are used to create new and finance sleeping cells, fundraising is organized to carry out specific terrorist attacks, the formation of their own cyber units, which, vice versa, are able to extract financial resources through hacker attacks using remote theft, extortion, the sale of weapons and drugs as predicate crimes, the means of committing which is often the use of cryptocurrencies

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cryptocurrency; bitcoin; terrorist financing; al-Qaeda; peer-to-peer networks; computer attacks; social engineering

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20397/2177-6652/2022.v22i0.2410

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