Information | Criminal liability for money mules

Criminal liability is being introduced for transferring a bank card, bank account or online banking access to third parties in exchange for payment.

The new offense targets money mules — individuals used by scammers to receive and transfer stolen funds.

Money mules may face the blocking of all bank accounts, inclusion in a registry of suspicious persons, difficulties obtaining loans, credit products and new bank cards, as well as imprisonment for up to seven years.

These measures apply not only to citizens of Kazakhstan but also to foreign nationals involved in such schemes.