The Anti-Corruption Agency detained high-ranking customs officers: the head of the Nur Zholy customs post (located on the Kazakh-Chinese border) Tursynbek Ermekov and his deputy Vitaly Sauer.
According to the Anti-Corruption Agency, the head of the customs post and his deputy tried to bribe the senior prosecutor of the Economy Department of the Service for Protecting Public Interests under the Prosecutor General’s Office of Kazakhstan, who led the group conducting the inspection at the customs. Customs officials were willing to pay $50,000 for a positive test result.
At the same time, they instructed the former head of the Nur Zholy customs post, Zhumabek Akmurzin, and the chief specialist of this post, Bektur Muzdybayev, to hand over the bribe to the prosecutor.
However, the bribery failed. Ermekov and Sauer were detained and placed in a temporary detention center in the city of Taldkorgan. As for the intermediaries, Akmurzin and Muzdybaev, the anti-corruption officials didn’t detain them, since they not only pleaded guilty and repented, but also assisted in exposing the real corrupt officials.
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