Burger King Summoned To Russian Prosecutor Over Issuing Cryptocurrency
(World News Russia)

Only a month after the fast food giant Burger King launched its own blockchain token called Whoppercoin in Russia, the company was questioned by the Izmailovo inter-district prosecutor`s office over its new cryptocurrency, according to Bitcoin News. A Burger King representative told RNS that the company had received two notifications from the prosecutor´s office: first on Sept. 13, then on Sept. 19 that had `an invitation to the Izmaylovskoy prosecutor´s office on behalf of the prosecutor´s office in Moscow.` `On the instructions of the Moscow Prosecutor´s Office, information was checked that we issued a cryptocurrency and started making payments with it. Accordingly, we were summoned to be...