Mining farm. File photoALMA-ATA, Mar 15Companies affiliated with the brother of the ex-president of Kazakhstan, Bolat Nazarbayev, voluntarily ceased their cryptocurrency mining activities after inspections by state bodies, the press service of the Financial Monitoring Agency (AFM) of the republic said. inspections of mining farms, whose activities lead to an increase in the risks of supply failures and shortages of electricity for ordinary consumers and entrepreneurs.Tokayev dismissed the matchmaker of Nazarbayev's daughter from the post of head of the CEC «As a result of the preventive measures taken, 55 mining farms voluntarily ceased their activities. They completely suspended work, dismantled equipment and removed it from their locations. Among the mining companies that ceased their activities, there are well-known entrepreneurs Bolat Nazarbayev and Alexander Klebanov in the Pavlodar region,» the press service said. businessmen Yerlan Nigmatulin in the Karaganda region. Kazakh media call Sharipbaev the husband of the eldest daughter of the ex-president Dariga Nazarbayeva, and Nigmatulin is an ex-parliamentarian, brother of the former speaker of the Majilis (lower house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin. illegal activity of 51 mining farms was cut. They did not notify the authorized body about the start of their activities, or illegally connected to energy sources without technical conditions, unreasonably placed on the territory of special economic zones, and also evaded taxes and customs duties. As of today, they are all disconnected from power supply sources,» the press service of the AFM said. In total, the AFM registered 25 criminal cases on facts related to illegal mining, seized more than 67,000 pieces of equipment for cryptocurrency mining worth about 100 billion tenge (about $ 200 million). ).The railway of Kazakhstan terminated the contract with the company of Nazarbayev's daughter
