In the Turkestan region, police have shut down the activities of a criminal group that had organised a channel for illegal migration in border areas.
According to Polisia.kz, those detained are suspected of assisting citizens from neighbouring countries in illegally crossing the state border. They received up to 500,000 tenge per migrant for their services.
Officers from the criminal police detained the four main organisers and their accomplices. All have been placed in temporary detention facilities.
During searches, foreign passports, fake documents, electronic media and communication devices were seized from the suspects.
A pre-trial investigation has been launched against the organisers under articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Organisation of illegal migration" and "Intentional illegal crossing of the state border".
It will be recalled that in January, the Supreme Audit Chamber (SAC) identified a significant discrepancy between the officially earned and remitted funds of labour migrants. As reported, citizens of three Central Asian countries officially earned 136 billion tenge in Kazakhstan over three years, but at the same time transferred around 1 trillion tenge back to their home countries.