According to the correspondent of Fars News Agency's Afghanistan site, the Taliban authorities announced that they closed 10 exchanges due to digital currency transactions in the online forex market.
The Taliban officials announced that these exchanges were closed due to online and digital transactions and a large number of people were affected.
Previously, Saber Mohmand, the spokesman of the Taliban Central Bank, said that forex or online trading of foreign currencies is prohibited in Afghanistan and that the wrongdoers will be prosecuted.
Bloomberg quoted Mohmand as saying: "The central bank has banned foreign currencies due to forex or online currency trading, and no rule in Sharia approves this issue."
The Taliban has not yet banned cryptocurrency trading in Afghanistan.
But despite the lack of official statistics of digital currency transactions in Afghanistan, the spokesperson of the Taliban Central Bank said that millions of dollars are traded daily in this market mainly by digital currency traders in Serai Shehzade Kabul.
