In Kazakhstan, anti-corruption fighters will receive new certificates
The administration of the Anti-Corruption Agency of Kazakhstan decided to abandon old-style service certificates, the so-called “red pass”. In return, anti-corruption fighters will receive plastic ID cards of international standard.
As the head of the Human Resources Department of the Anti-Corruption Agency Nurlan Zhaksimbetov said at the briefing, the abandonment of old-style certificates was caused by several reasons. The main one is that the population has “red pass” associated with abuse and permissiveness and, accordingly, cause a negative attitude.
“Promoting a new anti-corruption model based on the ideology of integrity, it is very important to get rid of the attributes and symbols of the past,” Zhaksimbetov explained. “New certificates are much more economical and more functional. The cost of their manufacture is two and a half times cheaper than the old ones. They will be used to access the administrative buildings of the Agency.”
It also turned out that ID-cards have six degrees of safety, therefore they are much more difficult to fake.
“As you know, there are more than enough cases of falsification of paper official certificates. Unfortunately, they didn’t pass the anti-corruption service either,” Zhaksimbetov stated. “Just the other day, the fact of using a fake “pass” by a fraudster, who is on the international wanted list, was revealed. Such swindlers, introducing themselves as employees of the Anti-Corruption Agency, mislead people for personal gain, thereby discrediting the work of the Agency and undermining the trust of citizens. New service certificates cannot be made, read off, and adjusted at home.”
The head of the Human Resources Department also named the estimated costs of transfer to plastic form. So, according to him, the cost of one ID-card will be about $3-4. The number of employees of the Anti-Corruption Agency today is 1600 people. Consequently, an identity exchange will cost approximately $4800-6100.
“The approved format is fully consistent with international standards,” Zhaksimbetov summed up. “In the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which includes countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, etc., plastic ID cards have long been used by police, intelligence service and civilian government agencies.”
