The Anti-Corruption Agency promises a cash reward of $26,500 for information about the whereabouts of the former founder of the Operator ROP, Shnar Muktarova.
According to anti-corruption fighters, Muktarov illegally received recycling fees from the company in the amount of more than two million dollars in the period from 2017 to 2018. This money was paid to Muktarova in the form of dividends.
Recall, as ACCA has already reported, the Operator ROP company was engaged in collecting recycling fees for cars in Kazakhstan. Previously, this enterprise belonged to Aliya Nazarbayeva, the youngest daughter of the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Permission for the Operator ROP to collect salvage was once issued by the then Prime Minister Karim Massimov, who is now under arrest on suspicion of attempting to carry out a coup d’état.
However, after the January events in Kazakhstan, the ROP Operator was transferred to the ownership of the state under a donation agreement, that is, it was actually nationalized. And the state joint-stock company “Zhasyl damu” became the new operator of the collection of salvage.
Almost immediately after the transfer of the company to the state, the chairman of the board of the Operator ROP, Medet Kumargaliev, and the vice-minister of ecology, geology, and natural resources of Kazakhstan, Akhmetzhan Primkulov, were detained while trying to leave the country on suspicion of committing corruption crimes.
A few days later, Ruslan Shamshiev, Managing Director for Legal Affairs of the Operator ROP company, hanged himself in his office.
In March, Svetlana Korotenko, the former general director of Operator ROP, was arrested on suspicion of embezzling over $52 million. In April, anti-corruption fighters arrested the former managing director of the company on suspicion of embezzling more than $27 million.
