1 Dec 2021

Karbala University discusses a doctoral thesis on criminal provisions for virtual currency
The Faculty of Law at the University of Karbala discussed the doctoral thesis tagged: “(Criminal provisions for virtual currency – a comparative study). The thesis was submitted by the student: Safaa Jabbar Abdul-Budairi.”
The thesis aimed to show that the subject of the research deals with a topic in which economics and technology are intertwined with law, as it has an important future social and political dimension. By issuing digital currencies to them, with the aim of crystallizing a legal vision that provides protection for these currencies and diagnoses the risks that they generate, and how to address them.
The thesis reached to address this issue, clarify its nature, identify its limits, determine the legal position on it, try to determine its legal nature, and clarify the legal texts capable of absorbing these currencies with protection, and the texts that need to be modified, within the framework of Iraqi legislation and the countries specified for comparison.
In conclusion, the researcher reached a number of proposals and recommendations, the most important of which is the need to study these currencies from all financial, technical and legal aspects to reach the issuance of a national currency, and to set standards for specific categories of them that grant permission to deal, and in accordance with the Iraqi legislative system with the aim of issuing a special law, or amending existing laws According to the above vision, and in order to achieve the path towards managing the risks of virtual currencies, it is better than avoiding them in a disciplined legal context.

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