Kuralbek Rakhmetov, a former senior assistant to the Attorney General of Kazakhstan, was sentenced to seven years in prison with a sentence in a medium security colony.
The trial in the case of Rakhmetov began last June. As it became known at the trial, the former senior assistant to the prosecutor general was charged with illegal detention, blackmail, threats, torture, prosecution of obviously innocent, abuse of power and official powers, as well as the dissemination of false information.
According to ACCA, in October 2016, the head of the interdepartmental investigation and operational group Kuralbek Rakhmetov charged two former financial police officers with serious crimes – participation in a criminal group, aiding in false business and abuse of official position, on the basis of which he detained and put them in a temporary detention center.
However, the Prosecutor’s office didn’t support Rakhmetov’s actions and refused his request for the arrest of the detainees. However, in November 2016, Rakhmetov again recognized other former financial police officers as suspects in the same charge.
“In total, 25 persons were illegally involved in the criminal prosecution by Rakhmetov in this case, 19 of whom are not law enforcement officers,” said Attorney General’s Assistant Duman Kozhakhmetov.
According to investigators, Rakhmetov falsified evidence for more than a year, forced people to give false testimonies in the investigation of the case. In all this, investigator Mikhail Reshetov helped him.
The prosecution of these people was stopped only in April 2017.
In September 2017, Rakhmetov and Reshetov were detained on suspicion of committing a crime under the article “Criminally prosecuting a knowingly innocent person, as well as on charges of disseminating knowingly false information. Both detainees were detained as a preventive measure.
By the verdict of the Almaly district court of Almaty, Kuralbek Rakhmetov was found guilty of forcing to testify by means of threats, blackmail; knowingly unlawful detention; in bringing knowingly innocent to criminal liability; in torture; in excess of power and official authority and in the dissemination of knowingly false information. For the commission of all these crimes, the former senior assistant to the Attorney General was sentenced to seven years in prison.
The court acquitted the former investigator Mikhail Reshetov on a number of articles, but found him guilty of disseminating knowingly false information and sentenced him to 1.5 years’ imprisonment.
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