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-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Satoshi <[FYI request #34885 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 9 June 2026 5:42 pm
To: Ministerial Services Inbox [TSY] <[The Treasury request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Official Information Act request - proceeds from confiscated cryptocurrency assets

Tēnā koe,

I am writing under the Official Information Act 1982 to request information about how the New Zealand government manages and accounts for proceeds received from confiscated cryptocurrency assets.

I am a journalist with Cryptocurrency NZ (cryptocurrency.org.nz), New Zealand's independent crypto news organization. This request is made in the public interest.

I request the following information:

1. Whether The Treasury receives or accounts for proceeds from the sale of confiscated cryptocurrency assets, and if so, how those proceeds are classified and recorded.

2. The total amount received by the Crown from confiscated cryptocurrency asset sales, broken down by year from 2015 to present, where such records exist.

3. Whether confiscated cryptocurrency assets appear on any Crown balance sheet or asset register, and if so, how they are valued.

4. Whether The Treasury has issued any guidance to government agencies on the accounting treatment of seized or confiscated cryptocurrency.

5. Whether The Treasury holds any cryptocurrency assets directly, and if so, the nature and estimated value of those holdings.

Please provide documents, records, policies or guidelines that are held and can be released under the Act. Where information cannot be released in full, I ask that it be released in part with reasons given for any withholding.

Ngā mihi,

Harry Satoshi
Editor, Cryptocurrency NZ

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