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Kazakh police hold seized crypto, but no one knows how much
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Kazakhstan's government agencies are building infrastructure to seize, store and manage confiscated cryptocurrency, including plans for a state crypto reserve and custody service via the Central Securities Depository. However, no agency discloses the total value of assets already seized, creating a transparency and governance gap.
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If you're building custody, compliance or forensics tools for crypto, Kazakhstan is legalising seizure at scale but has no way to track what it owns. That's your first customer—the government doesn't know its own inventory.
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