The Anti-Corruption Service has summarised the results of the first half of 2024. According to the press service of the Anti-Corruption Agency, the department has conducted analysis and monitoring across 113 areas this year.
It is reported that 90% of projects in the fields of education, science and sport do not achieve their stated goals, and 70% of research ends up as articles and books with no practical application.
Given the importance of providing the population with essential medicines, the Anti-Corruption Agency paid particular attention to the activities of ‘SK-Pharmacy’ in its work.
‘The company has an inefficient procurement system, unnecessary “middlemen” have been created, there is collusion among wholesale suppliers, and there is no effective control over their activities’, the statement said.
Under the ‘Business Zhol’ project this year, the department resolved 84 problem cases and protected the rights of nearly 9,500 entrepreneurs.
‘In the Turkestan region, the activities of intermediaries who resold irrigation water to farmers have been stopped. On our initiative, direct contracts were signed with the water supplier, which halved the price for villagers’, the Anti-Corruption Service reported.
Furthermore, thanks to the intervention of the Anti-Corruption Agency this year, the construction of 9 schools was completed, and water supply was launched in 14 villages across the country.
Since the beginning of the year, the department's employees have registered 876 criminal offences, a significant portion of which relate to bribery, embezzlement and abuse of official power. Anti-corruption fighters have exposed 592 individuals, including 107 managers. 329 individuals have been convicted.
It is reported that in cases concluded this year, assets worth nearly 195 billion tenge have been recovered by the state. Over 2.5 years, this figure has reached 1.07 trillion tenge.
It has also become known that, for the purpose of information exchange with foreign partners, the Anti-Corruption Agency cooperates with international law enforcement networks – GlobE under the UN, the Egmont Group, CARIN and ARIN.
Alongside this, the department has signed 13 memoranda with anti-corruption services, 4 of which were signed this year – with Azerbaijan, Hong Kong, Qatar and Russia.