At the beginning of 2024, special units of the AFM of Kazakhstan liquidated 19 cryptocurrency exchangers with a turnover of more than $60 million. Representatives of the department reported this during a meeting of the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units (CHFIU).
As part of the investigation, law enforcement officers froze digital assets worth $1.2 million.
Also during this period, Agency specialists blocked 5,500 illegal online exchangers that operated without a license.
Nine cases have been registered against “gray” miners, and almost 4,000 cryptocurrency mining devices have been seized.
The meeting participants noted the growing risks of using digital assets for criminal purposes and agreed to join efforts to improve methods of countering new threats.
The agreement on the establishment of the SRPFR was signed in December 2012 by the presidents of Kazakhstan, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Earlier, ForkLog reported that the AFM returned $500,000 worth of assets from the Eolus Bitcoin pyramid to the country and shut down a mining farm with an income of $300,000 over two years.
Let us recall that as of August, the authorities of Kazakhstan had stopped the illegal turnover of cryptocurrencies worth $75.4 million.
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