Overview
- Authorities say they took more than 1,100 illegal crypto trading sites offline in 2025 under enforcement centered on the AIFC framework.
- Investigators opened 1,135 criminal cases and returned 141.5 billion tenge (about $277 million) to victims of financial fraud.
- Officials report dismantling 15 criminal organizations, freezing roughly 20,000 money‑mule bank accounts, and tracing 2.1 trillion tenge in suspicious flows with help from payment institutions.
- Targeted actions included shutting the dark‑web RAKS laundering exchange, seizing $10 million from a cross‑border pyramid scheme, and later confiscating nearly $17 million from additional illicit platforms.
- Policy keeps general crypto payments banned as activity is directed to licensed venues and tightly controlled pilots such as CryptoCity proceed.