Police have closed down at least 16 cryptocurrency exchanges in the Herat province of western Afghanistan in the last week, according to a report in Ariana News, an independent news outlet in that country. The report quotes a local police official as saying arrests had been made during the closures.
The closures were carried out in response to a ban on crypto trading that had been in place for about three months, according to the report. It was apparently referring to a ban imposed on online foreign exchange trading by the central bank Da Afghanistan Bank in June. A central bank spokesman told Bloomberg at that time:
“There is no instruction in Islamic law to approve it [online forex trading]. As a result, we have banned it.”
Head of Herat Money Exchangers’ Union Ghulam Mohammad Suhrabi told Ariana News, “Digital currency accounts are outside the country and are purchased from the companies. Our people are not familiar with it, so it is better not to use it.”
Ariana News reported in...
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