22.09.2022
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Kazakhstan: official fined $100,000 for $7,000 bribe

The chief auditor of the Zhambyl region, the chairman of the audit commission, Zhanatbek Dzhaparov, was sentenced to pay a fine of $100,000. Dzhaparov was arrested in May of this year on suspicion of accepting a $7,000 bribe from a local businessman for a positive audit decision. The investigation of the case was carried out […]

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Kazakhstan: another ally of Nazarbayev became a defendant in a criminal case

The former chairman of the lower house of the parliament of Kazakhstan, Nurlan Nigmatulin, along with his brother Yerlan, became defendants in a criminal case on a raider seizure of a business. This was announced by Maulen Alimbayev, lawyer of the Nur-Sultan Bar Association, representing the interests of the injured party, businessman Kuat Sultanbekov. Kuat […]

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Kazakhstan: national holding liquidated after criticism of the president

The national holding Zerde, which was supposed to be reformed, was decided to be liquidated. On August 5, the Government of Kazakhstan adopted a corresponding resolution. National holding “Zerde” was established in July 2008 in order to promote the development of the info-communication technologies market and the implementation of breakthrough projects, the formation of a […]

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Kazakhstan: policemen appropriated found money

An interesting case, which clearly demonstrates the level of “honesty and professionalism” of the Kazakh police, occurred in Aktobe. Last October, A. Bekkuzhin, a resident of Aktobe, accidentally lost his bag. The loss was discovered by citizen A. Kuanova. Without opening the find, she immediately handed it over to the nearest police station. She handed […]

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Kazakhstan: major general suspected of corruption hangs himself in a pre-trial detention center

The incident occurred in the Almaty pre-trial detention center SI-18. In the early morning, the guard found the arrested Major General of the Police Zhailaubek Khalykuly hanged in his cell. He faced up to 15 years in prison. Recall, as ACCA has already reported, 58-year-old Khalykuly in 2009-2016 served as head of the departments of […]

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Kazakhstan: The Nazarbayev Foundation sued journalists for publishing about ex-presidents’ billions.

On July 29, Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Foundation, the first president of Kazakhstan, filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Maryland against the American Journalism Development Network (JDN), headquartered in Baltimore. According to the lawsuit, the Nazarbayev Foundation did not like the JDN publication, which revealed that the first president of Kazakhstan owns a multibillion-dollar […]

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Kazakhstan: detention center officer convicted of extortion and bribe of $50

In the Aktau city court of the Mangistau region, the career of the head of the regime department of the mixed security institution (pre-trial detention center) GM-172/10 Nurlan Bobeshov ended ingloriously. By a court verdict, he was banned for life from working in law enforcement, judicial, quasi-state bodies, and local governments. Nurlan Bobeshov ended up […]

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Kazakhstan: Court bans media from covering journalist’s trial

The head of the department of justice of the Kostanay region, Amir Umarov, started a lawsuit with journalist Alexandra Sergazinova, who accused him of falsifying documents in the interests of the secretary of the regional bar association, Togzhan Agatayeva. At the first court session, the judge of the Specialized Administrative Court of Kostanay Sabyr Tazhkenov […]

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Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev sells his holiday home in the capital for $7.5 million

A lot about the urgent sale of a three-story 7-room house on Aigolek Street, 16 kilometers from the presidential residence “Akorda”, appeared on a website for the sale of real estate in Kazakhstan. The selling price of the house is $7.5 million. The ad states that the house was built in 2019. Total area – […]

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