They were used for money laundering/ Kazakhstan closes 130 cryptocurrency platforms

Kazakhstan has intensified its fight against financial crime, closing 130 cryptocurrency exchanges linked to money laundering and seizing digital assets worth $16.7 million, the Kazakh Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM) reported.

According to the AFM, these shadowy platforms were used by criminal groups across Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova to launder proceeds from drug trafficking and online fraud.

"These illegal exchanges act as professional money launderers, withdrawing and transferring criminal proceeds abroad. They rely on bank accounts and wallets belonging to front people," the AFM reported.

The agency described the scheme as a multi-step process. Drug dealers and cybercriminals first transferred their profits into cryptocurrency exchange wallets, where the funds were converted and routed through a series of transactions to hide their origins./CNA

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