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Tajikistan has passed amendments to its Criminal Code to introduce criminal penalties for the illegal use of electricity to mine virtual assets and cryptocurrencies. Under the new regulations, offenders face fines of 15,000 to 75,000 somoni, or two to eight years in prison. Previously, cryptocurrencies were neither legal nor illegal in Tajikistan and were in a regulatory grey area.
According to Decrypt, illegal bitcoin mining activities are on the rise in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. The Prosecutor General of Tajikistan said that losses caused by illegal cryptocurrency miners in the country reached 3.52 million US dollars in the first half of 2025. Kazakh authorities recently cracked down on cryptocurrency miners using illegal energy, indicating that this problem is growing in Central Asia.
Illicit crypto mining outfits stealing electricity are becoming a growing problem for countries in Central Asia.
According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred in the Tajikistan region.
On April 13, the China Seismic Network officially determined that a 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in Tajikistan (39.25 degrees north latitude, 70.65 degrees east longitude) at 12:24 on April 13, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers.
On April 6th, local time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan released a statement stating that the allegations made by the Ukrainian Embassy in Tajikistan of recruiting mercenaries to participate in anti Russian activities in the area are not true. On April 3rd, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Patrushchev, stated that according to information available to the Russian side, the Ukrainian Embassy in Tajikistan is recruiting mercenaries and joining the so...
