The former deputy head of the City Department of the National Security Committee of Almaty, Talgat Mukhanov, was taken into custody for two months.
According to the Anti-Corruption Agency, Mukhanov and other persons are suspected of fraud. The investigation into this case is being conducted by an interdepartmental investigative group, consisting of employees of the Anti-Corruption Agency and the National Security Committee. Details of the investigation are not made public.
As ACCA has already reported, in January, the Chairman of the NSC, Karim Masimov, was arrested in Kazakhstan. He is also suspected of high treason.
At the end of September, the nephew of the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, businessman Kairat Satybaldy, who had the rank of Major General of the National Security Committee, was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Meanwhile, in Astana, the trial of the former First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Marat Shaikhutdinov, who was accused of espionage and treason, has been ended. The process was held behind closed doors, so the details of the case are classified.
However, it is known that Shaikhutdinov was found guilty of illegal collection, dissemination and disclosure of state secrets and sentenced to 7 years in prison. It’s worth noting that Shaikhutdinov was dismissed from the post of Security Council member by the decree of President Tokayev on March 28 this year.
The guilt of two other defendants (the former head of the Center for Strategic Studies Leonid Skakovsky and the former researcher at the Center for Political and Military-Strategic Studies under the International Scientific Complex “Astana” Oleg Zhdan), who were accused of treason and espionage, was also fully proven at the trial. Both defendants were sentenced to 11 years in prison.
