Financial Monitoring Agency Chairman Zhanat Elimanov
briefed President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on the agency's performance in the
first half of 2026. Thus, seven criminal groups were dismantled, and the
operations of shadow cryptocurrency exchanges were disrupted. The President was
also informed that, for the first time in the CIS, the agency had uncovered a
scheme using specialized equipment to impersonate mobile network operators and
send phishing text messages on a mass scale. Elimanov also reported on measures
to monitor public spending. Unjustified expenditures totaling 279 billion tenge
were prevented across 52 infrastructure projects. Thanks to improvements in
financial monitoring legislation, Kazakhstan's rating was upgraded in four key
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations. Following the meeting, the
Head of State issued a number of instructions on the Agency's key areas of
responsibility.
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