{"id":79236,"date":"2023-05-24T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=79236"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:50:27","slug":"in-kazakhstan-authorities-identify-alleged-organizers-of-the-metago-cryptocurrency-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-kazakhstan-authorities-identify-alleged-organizers-of-the-metago-cryptocurrency-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kazakhstan, authorities identify alleged organizers of the MetaGo cryptocurrency pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four residents of Kazakhstan are suspected of organizing a cryptocurrency pyramid, whose damage amounted to more than 124 million tenge (over $280,000). This was <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/afm_rk\/1809\\\">reported<\/a> by the local Financial Monitoring Agency (AFM).<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, investors were urged to invest in the company&#8217;s own token, but the site did not specify how it earned revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The pyramid operated in the city of Jezkazgan. It victimised more than 600 people.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-trial investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, in March, AFM officers halted the activity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-blocks-illegal-crypto-exchange-with-34m-turnover\">illegal cryptocurrency exchange<\/a> ABS Change, which had a turnover of $34 million. Law enforcement authorities seized $358,000 in cash and froze a further $23,000 in wallets on the Binance exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four residents of Kazakhstan are suspected of organizing a cryptocurrency pyramid, whose damage amounted to more than 124 million tenge (over $280,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79237,"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":[153,1163],"class_list":["post-79236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-kazakhstan","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79236","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=79236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79238,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79236\/revisions\/79238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}