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Russia is seeing an increase in the number of crypto bribery cases where corrupt individuals receive payment in tokens such as Bitcoin (BTC), lawyers say.

In an interview with Svoy Kirovsky Portal, Marina Odintsova, the head of the Kirov branch of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, said there had been a rise in “non-cash” bribery in Russia in recent months.

Odintsova was answering a question about the “most common methods of transferring bribes” in Russia.

The lawyer said that there were “three” common ways to give and receive bribes. She named crypto as the first. Odintsova said:

“We have recently seen cryptocurrency involved in bribery cases. Cryptocurrency is the sector that is the least controlled by the state. And it is extremely difficult to track transfers made [using crypto]. However, it is not impossible.”