The Financial Monitoring Agency has completed an investigation into facilitating the illegal activities of foreign online casinos. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
According to the investigation, the suspects transferred money in favor of foreign online casinos through the payment systems of three companies under their control. This system included hundreds of payment terminals installed in various banks.
«Among them are the online casinos Nomadgames, Sultangames, Pinco, Pin-UP, Vavada, Mostbet and 1WIN», the statement says.
The total volume of transactions reached 191 billion tenge, and the calculated commission fee amounted to 286 million tenge. To conceal the true purpose of the money transfers, the details of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs were used. Some of them were unaware that their data had been involved in illegal circulation. In particular, terminals accepting payments via the internet were registered in their names.
Through fake contracts and specially created websites, the transfers were presented as payment for goods and services. The funds were then sent to foreign recipients, including in the form of cryptocurrency.
«The person suspected of organizing the crime has been taken into custody. With court sanction, four cars and 103 million tenge in cash have been seized», the statement says.
The criminal case has been sent to court.