A man in Astana has been sentenced for issuing fictitious invoices totalling over 1 billion tenge within a single year.
"The Department of Economic Investigations for the city of Astana has completed a pre-trial investigation into the issuance of fictitious invoices without the actual performance of work, provision of services, or shipment of goods, on behalf of the limited liability partnership 'Kaz Montazh Energy' to the amount of more than 1 billion tenge," reports the press service of the Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM).
It is reported that the organiser, conspiring with a group of individuals, issued invoices without providing services from December 2021 to June 2022. The invoices were issued on behalf of the limited liability partnership 'Kaz Montazh Energy' to the limited liability partnership 'TazalykExpert' and the limited liability partnership 'Bertys Construction'.
In the end, the court sentenced the man to 4 years' imprisonment.
Recall that previously in Shymkent, a man was also identified who had issued fictitious invoices without performing work or providing services. As a result of his actions, taxes totalling 443 million tenge did not reach the state budget. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 3 years' imprisonment.
Meanwhile, in early March, the Vice Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Yerzhan Birzhanov, stated that at least 944,000 of the 1.4 million (67%) individual entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan keep their incomes a secret.