{"id":38375,"date":"2021-03-05T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38375"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:20:50","slug":"two-uzbek-citizens-detained-during-bitcoin-sale-in-tashkent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/two-uzbek-citizens-detained-during-bitcoin-sale-in-tashkent\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Uzbek citizens detained during bitcoin sale in Tashkent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In Tashkent, two Uzbek citizens were detained during a bitcoin sale transaction. <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.spot.uz\/ru\/2021\/03\/05\/btc\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">local media<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> report, citing the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">One of the detainees attempted to sell 0.45 BTC. During the deal, one bitcoin was valued at $49,670.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Criminal cases have been opened against both the buyer and the seller for illegal acquisition or sale of currency values and for operating without a license.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Under local law, residents of Uzbekistan cannot buy cryptocurrencies; they are only allowed to sell them through licensed exchanges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, law enforcement officers detained a resident of Tashkent, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/uzbekistan-resident-arrested-for-attempting-to-sell-20-bitcoins\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">attempted to sell 20 BTC<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Uzbek citizens were detained in Tashkent during a bitcoin sale transaction. Local media report, citing the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1444,1206],"class_list":["post-38375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-law-enforcement","tag-uzbekistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38377,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38375\/revisions\/38377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}