Kyrgyzstan’s police have opened 90 criminal cases involving cryptocurrency since the start of 2026, Interior Minister Ulan Niyazbekov said at a September 5 meeting of the National Council for the Development of Virtual Assets and Blockchain Technologies. The cases include cyber fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, concealment and movement of illicit funds, and the recruitment of droppers who provide identities or accounts for laundering proceeds. Niyazbekov said cross-border transfers through chains of wallets, mixers and other obfuscation tools complicate investigations. A 2025 operation against a transnational online-fraud group found a TRON-network wallet containing more than $3 million in digital assets. Authorities are coordinating with banks and the National Bank to freeze suspicious transactions, share cybercrime data and pursue parallel financial investigations. The enforcement push comes as President Sadyr Japarov seeks to make Kyrgyzstan a regional virtual-asset hub. Licensed crypto firms handled about $30 billion in transactions in 2025, up from roughly $60 million in 2022, while the country faces repeated Western sanctions over allegations that its banks and crypto platforms help Russia evade restrictions.