(23 January 2026 | Source: FBRK)
The Agency for Civil Service Affairs has officially confirmed violations of the law in the committee for veterinary control and supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture (CVCS MA). This was stated in an official response to a complaint from Alfiya Zhamkenova, head of the committee's personnel and organisational work department.
The inspection was initiated following an appeal from Ms Zhamkenova, which contained complaints about the actions of the committee's chairman Kazbek Tashimov.
Earlier, the FBRK editorial team published a piece about the unfolding conflict, at the centre of which were issues of selective application of disciplinary measures, opaque distribution of bonuses, and structural reform without proper justification.
WHAT THE INSPECTION CONFIRMED
The Agency for Civil Service Affairs conducted an unscheduled inspection based on the complaint, which covered several areas at once: violations of labour discipline, payment of bonuses and allowances, changes to the structure of the state body, approval of the holiday schedule for 2026, and the procedure for appointing internal investigations.
Based on the results of studying the submitted materials, violations of the law were established on the following points:
- unlawful appointment of internal investigations;
- violations in changing the committee's structure;
- failure by employees to observe labour discipline;
- violations in approving the holiday schedule for 2026.
The official response, signed by the acting director of the Department of Control in the Sphere of Civil Service, Mr Tursynkanov, states that the identified violations indicate non-compliance with the requirements of the Law "On Civil Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan" and the Labour Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In connection with the identified violations, a submission has been made to the Ministry of Agriculture and the committee for veterinary control and supervision to rectify the identified violations.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE SECTOR?
The conflict in the CVCS MA is not an isolated case. In recent months, it seems that more and more public disputes are concentrating around the Ministry of Agriculture.
As a separate thread, there are issues related to corruption in the export of livestock and grey schemes at the border — areas that fall under the responsibility of that same veterinary committee. Now, an internal management crisis, confirmed by the state body, is added to this. And it feels like this is only the beginning.
To recall, recently the FBRK editorial team reported on the crossing of 100 head of transit cattle across the Kazakh border. As it turned out, between the processing of documents and the actual border crossing, 25 days had passed, and a single cattle truck managed to hold as many as 100 bullocks, despite the usual practice of loading 12–16 head per vehicle.
Some time earlier, we wrote that the committee for veterinary control and supervision refused to provide FBRK with statistics on animal disease outbreaks, citing the classification "For official use only".
However, it turned out that similar epizootic data is freely published in international scientific journals by Kazakh scientists.
We believe that amid the internal conflict and contradictory practice of data disclosure, the question of the reasons for the information blackout at the Ministry of Agriculture is becoming increasingly pressing.