A land scandal is brewing in Pavlodar. The public association "Kazakh Society of the Blind" (KSB) has released a video appealing to the country's authorities.
According to media reports citing KSB representatives, the land on which their training enterprise is located is to be given over for the construction of a school.
In the video address, the public figures claim that the akimat failed from the outset to plan for additional sites for social facilities in the master plan. Now, because of this, blind people could lose their building.
"To rectify this criminal negligence, the akimat adopted a resolution on the compulsory acquisition of the land plot on which the Pavlodar Training and Production Enterprise of the Kazakh Society of the Blind LLP is located," stated members of the association.
Representatives of the blind association are puzzled as to why their building in particular is being targeted for seizure.
"There are many private residential properties nearby that could have been acquired for school construction, most of which are in dilapidated condition. Is it really necessary to take this land to implement the government's directive? It turns out that they are destroying one social facility to build another," they added in the video address.
It will be recalled that the KSB public association had previously faced legal proceedings over the return of property. At that time, its representatives also appealed to the authorities, including the president.
It all began in 2015 when the former chairman of the KSB public association, Baibolat Aubakirov, abused his position and sold KSB property to third parties, who then took out a bank loan using the property as collateral. The third parties subsequently went bankrupt, and the property came under the control of the bank.
Later, the public association recovered financial damages from Aubakirov and purchased a 4-storey building in Astana. However, the KSB did not stop there; it intended to also recover the property that the bank had previously taken as collateral from the third parties. It should be noted that the court accepted the KSB's claim.