Employees of the General Prosecutor's Office, the Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) and the embassy in the United Arab Emirates have extradited from Dubai a citizen of Kazakhstan who was wanted for illegal cryptocurrency trading.
According to the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office, between 2022 and 2024 the suspect bought, sold and exchanged digital assets on the Binance cryptocurrency exchange platform without a license. The illegal income amounted to 400 million tenge.
To avoid criminal liability, the individual fled, and as a result, an international wanted notice was issued for him.
In February, the suspect was detained in Dubai and, at the request of the General Prosecutor's Office, extradited to Kazakhstan. The man is currently in a pre-trial detention centre.
For committing this crime, he faces a penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to five years with confiscation of property.
For context, earlier employees of the General Prosecutor's Office extradited from Azerbaijan a citizen of Kazakhstan wanted for committing a series of particularly serious crimes, including murder and robbery.
In October last year, the suspect and his accomplice lured an acquaintance who was a businessman to a meeting, during which they beat him until he lost consciousness. The perpetrators then seized the businessman's property worth a total of about 40 million tenge, after which they drove him outside Almaty and killed him.