Research On The Investigation Into Criminal Cases Of Network Pyramid Selling By Virtual Currency

Blockchain technology has become another hot topic following big data and artificial intelligence,virtual currency is based on blockchain technology.From 2016 to 2017,the types of virtual currency and the number of trading platforms have seen explosive growth,its price also keeps rising.More and more citizens use virtual currency as an investment,many companies use virtual currency for financing.There are criminal risks of network pyramid selling surrounding the virtual currency.According to incomplete statistics,from 2016 to now,there are about more than 180 cases of network pyramid crime in the name of virtual currency,the amount involved is nearly 100 billion yuan,it seriously endangers the social economic order and the security of citizens' property.The logic of this article is that finding problems,analyzing problems,solving problems.The article is divided into five parts: In the first part,explain the concept of network pyramid selling,research status and research methods.According to the research,there are fewer studies on criminal cases that use virtual currency for network pyramid selling.In the second part,this article starts with the definition of the crime of using virtual currency for network pyramid selling,it analyzes its essence and characteristics,the main forms of such criminal cases include: Coined network pyramid selling?ICO network pyramid selling and the compound virtual currency network pyramid selling;and discussed the development incentive of network pyramid selling based on virtual currency.In the third part,Analyzing the characteristics of such criminal cases starts from the characteristics of criminal behavior,the characteristics of criminals,the characteristics of evidence and the psychological characteristics of victims.In the fourth part,Clarifying the difficulties of investigation,include: finding criminal cues is difficult,timing is difficult to grasp,cases are difficult to quantify,and difficulty in extracting evidence and so on.In the fifth part,it puts forward the path of investigation according to the difficulties of investigation.That need strengthen the collection of criminal cues and build a basic intelligence network.And then,the investigative agencies need reinforce the analysis of criminal clues and structure criminal organization system,it can improve the capabilities of risk warning.Meanwhile,checking and controlling the personnel flow,information flow,capital flow,it can provide accurate and valuable clues for investigative agencies.It should improve the coordinated combat mechanism,it can have a reasonable choice of intervention opportunity,extract the criminal evidence and improve the evidence system.In order to reduce the losses,we should do a good job of recovering the stolen money and saving loss.It thoroughly analyzes the specific difficulties in the process of practice,and refine the characteristics of the cases,it can make up for theoretical defects.At the same time,it has innovated the path of investigation on the basis of traditional investigation methods.It can provide theoretical basis for investigative authorities,do early warning work,and reduce the potential harm caused by such criminal cases.