In Kokand, a joint operation by the State Security Service and the Cybercrime Department of the Fergana Regional Internal Affairs Directorate led to the arrest of two local residents. They are suspected of organizing illegal crypto asset exchange operations through mobile trading applications. The total shadow turnover exceeded 13 billion Uzbek soums.

According to the investigation, one of the suspects used his smartphone to open several crypto wallets and conducted transactions worth over 1 billion soums since April 2024. A pre-investigation check is currently underway regarding this case.

The second suspect's operations were significantly larger. The volume of his illegal digital asset transactions exceeded 12.5 billion soums. A criminal case has been opened against him under the article regulating liability for violations of legislation in the sphere of crypto asset circulation.

Earlier, a similar case of illegal digital currency trading was stopped in Tashkent. A 22-year-old native of Syrdarya region was investigated for conducting transactions worth nearly 7 billion soums without the required license from the regulator.

Source: podrobno.uz