In Semey, six students of a local university were identified and questioned, whose bank cards, according to the investigation, were used to receive, transfer and subsequently cash out funds. The investigation into the case continues.
WHAT THE INVESTIGATION ESTABLISHED
The Department of the Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM) for the Abai Region shut down the activities of a group of individuals engaged in recruiting droppers and using their bank accounts.
The bank cards belonging to the students were used to receive funds. The amounts received were then split up and transferred to other accounts.
According to the investigation, this scheme made it possible to conceal the origin of the funds and complicate the tracing of financial flows.
HOW MUCH MONEY PASSED THROUGH THE ACCOUNTS
More than 16 million tenge from 25 citizens was received into the account of just one of the students.
According to the investigation, the senders of this money are victims in cases related to internet fraud.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE VICTIMS
According to AFM information, the senders of the funds are located in 11 regions of the country. The list includes the Abai, Karaganda, Aktobe, Turkistan, Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Akmola, Zhambyl and Almaty regions, as well as the cities of Almaty and Shymkent.
AT WHAT STAGE THE CASE IS
The investigation continues. Other information, in accordance with Article 201 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, is not subject to disclosure.
CONTEXT
From January to July 2026, the AFM liquidated 33 dropper cells carrying out money-laundering operations. The agency identified more than 40 organisers of criminal schemes who involved over 500 people in unlawful activity, and also uncovered illegal financial operations totalling more than 112 billion tenge.
Earlier in the Karaganda Region, the activities of a group of dropovods were shut down, which provided for the receipt and withdrawal of funds of players of the internet casino Vavada. More than 415 million tenge was channelled through 23 drop accounts.
In July, in the Aktobe Region, it became known that an investigation was under way into a case of alleged aiding of internet fraud, illegal entrepreneurship, dropping and legalisation of criminal proceeds. According to the investigation, the suspects organised a scheme for receiving, converting and legalising funds obtained as a result of telephone and internet fraud. The amount of damage, according to the investigation, exceeded 120 million tenge.