The National Bank of Kazakhstan will establish a Cryptocurrency Analytics Center to identify suspicious transactions with digital assets and forward information to law enforcement agencies. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
Chairman of the National Bank Timur Suleimenov announced the creation of the Cryptocurrency Analytics Center in Kazakhstan. Its main task will be monitoring operations with digital assets and identifying suspicious transactions.
"The crypto market exists, whether we want it or not. Therefore, our task is to make it transparent. That is exactly why we are creating the Cryptocurrency Analytics Center. A significant part of its work will involve tracking transactions and passing information to the relevant law enforcement agencies," he said.
Suleimenov noted that no financial market can be fully protected from malicious actors.
"Can the market be 100% clean? That is a rhetorical question. There will always be people who try to use any financial instruments for illegal purposes," Suleimenov shared.
The head of the National Bank recommended that users work only with regulated crypto platforms that comply with legal requirements and conduct customer identification (KYC).
According to him, using licensed platforms significantly reduces the likelihood of encountering fraudulent schemes, while on unregulated exchanges such risks are much higher.
From 2023 to 2025, more than a thousand criminal cases related to cryptocurrency circulation were registered in Kazakhstan. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Sanzhar Adilov.
Of these, 60% are cases of fraud, 25% are facts of illegal activity of cryptocurrency exchange points, and 15% are legalization of criminal proceeds through digital assets. The total damage to citizens and organizations exceeded 8 billion tenge.
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