The criminal case against 35-year-old Denis Galkin began to be considered in the court of the Kazakh city of Kostanay on October 17. The prosecutor's office believes that the Russian launched the website kzobmen.com, on which he sold and bought cryptocurrency without a license or registration with the AIFC (Astana International Financial Center).
Prosecutor Marat Beisembayev read the indictment, which alleges that as a result of his actions, the defendant gained income on a particularly large scale, 3.935 billion tenge (about $8 million). According to the investigation, crypto-exchange operations were carried out in violation of anti-money laundering rules. In particular, any individuals who simply needed to enter some personal data could buy and sell cryptocurrency on the site.
Earlier, the Financial Monitoring Agency (FMC) of Kazakhstan reported that the Astana city court sentenced the creator and head of the cryptocurrency financial pyramid Sincere Systems.