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Kazakhstan’s Financial Watchdog Goes After Unlicensed Crypto Exchange Services

The Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) of the Republic of Kazakhstan has dismantled a group involved in the illegal exchange of cryptocurrencies. Its members organized the trading through several websites such as kzobmen.com, 1wm.kz, kazobmen.ru, wm007.kz, and kz-exchange.com.

As part of the operation in Kostanay region, searches were carried out at six locations, in which items incriminating the operators of the platforms were seized, the watchdog said in a press release. Its employees confiscated a number of laptops, cell phones, and flash memory sticks, as well as banking and accounting documents.

The authority alleged that the organizers of the online exchangers had received “especially large-scale” income from their business undertaking, without specifying the amount. It also did not reveal how many persons were in the group or their identities.

Investigators were able to establish that they had two crypto wallets at Binance, крупнейшая в мире криптобиржа, with a combined balance of $6,000 в цифровых активах. Access to these wallets has been temporarily restricted, the FMA noted. Больше, чем $200,000 worth of coins were found in wallets with other exchanges.

A pre-trial investigation is underway, according to the announcement. The Financial Monitoring Agency also reminded that these types of activities are allowed only under the special legal regime of the Astana International Financial Center (МФЦА).

The Kazakhstan government has been taking steps to регулировать the country’s crypto market, which has been growing since the Central Asian nation became a bitcoin mining hotspot following China’s crackdown on the industry in 2021.

In order to operate an exchange platform legally, crypto companies need to obtain regulatory approval and register with Kazakhstan’s financial hub. В октябре, 2022, Binance was лицензированный as a provider of crypto exchange and custody services. Earlier that month, Это согласованный to share information about crypto-related crime with the authorities in Nur-Sultan.

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Любомир Тасев

Любомир Тасев — журналист из технически подкованной Восточной Европы, которому нравится цитата Хитченса.: «Быть ​​писателем — это то, чем я являюсь, а не то, что я делаю». Помимо крипто, блокчейн и финтех, международная политика и экономика — два других источника вдохновения.

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