PANews reported on August 30 that according to The Paper, on August 29, the People's Procuratorate of Xuhui District, Shanghai, issued a report on virtual currency crimes. Since 2022, the procuratorate has handled 23 criminal cases involving virtual currency involving 45 people, and the number of cases accepted has been on the rise for three consecutive years. At the same time, the relevant cases show the characteristics of complex means of committing crimes, technical specialization and concealment, and high crime amounts. In the cases handled, the average illegal gains of criminals are more than 1 million yuan, and in some cases, the illegal gains of criminals are more than 5 million yuan.

It is worth noting that the Xuhui District Procuratorate reported the country's first case of illegal acquisition of digital wallet private keys, in which Liu and three others illegally obtained computer information system data. Liu and three others were sentenced for illegally parsing nearly 20,000 digital wallet addresses by implanting a "backdoor" in the APP (previously reported on July 17).

In addition, according to the Xinmin Evening News, in response to the trend of increasing number of virtual currency crime cases and large amounts of money involved in recent years, the Xuhui District Procuratorate and the Xuhui District Public Security Bureau jointly signed the "Standardized Guidelines for the Handling of Virtual Currency Involved in Criminal Proceedings", which provide more detailed and clear regulations on the entire process and each link involved in handling virtual currency cases, including inquiry and evidence collection, seizure and custody, and transfer and disposal, providing specific guidelines for the legal handling of virtual currencies involved.