Maintaining a Balance of Private and Public Interests in the Field of Digital Assets Confiscation: The United States Case

The development of information technologies and the global change in the economic situation in the world have necessitated adequate legal regulation of cryptocurrency turnover. Maintaining a balance of private and public interests in the process of confiscation of virtual assets as products of criminal activity or means of committing a crime is an essential element in maintaining the stability of criminal law mechanisms for combating crime. Considering the United States of America case, the author analyzes the models of cryptocurrencies and digital assets confiscation in the form of criminal, civil and administrative confiscation. The author also studies legislative initiatives that allow US law enforcement agencies both to provide the possibility of compensation for victims of criminal activity and to restore social and public justice in order to prevent the development of criminal activity. The author concludes that it is possible to use the positive experience of the United States in the framework of Russian legal regulation.