The Prosecutor's Office of Shymkent has uncovered cases of illegal removal of travel restrictions on debtors from the country by private bailiffs (PBs), as well as instances of unlawful initiation of enforcement proceedings.
According to the press service of the department, in a number of cases, enforcement proceedings were initiated by assistants to bailiffs at a time when the PBs themselves were on leave, which contravenes the requirements of the law.
In connection with the identified violations, a representation was submitted to the Minister of Justice seeking the elimination of breaches of legality.
As a result of the review, 85 private bailiffs were brought to disciplinary responsibility. Furthermore, the Ministry of Justice filed lawsuits in court seeking the revocation of licences for the right to engage in PB activities.
The court upheld the claims of the Ministry of Justice. Consequently, 12 PBs were stripped of their state licences. The judicial acts have entered into legal force.
It is worth recalling that in October, in the North Kazakhstan Region, 25 bailiffs were found to have hidden income totalling 133.5 million tenge, leading to non-payment of taxes amounting to 13.2 million tenge.
In December, the Prosecutor's Office of Taldykorgan identified significant discrepancies between the actual income of PBs and the data reported in their tax declarations for 2023.
It was noted that the volume of completed enforcement proceedings for the past year amounted to 896.1 million tenge, whereas only 231 million was declared. The difference reached 665.1 million tenge.
Later, in Almaty, a PB was convicted for the illegal appropriation of recovered funds and fraud on an especially large scale. In total, the bailiff misappropriated over 370 million tenge, as well as a Range Rover that was subject to enforcement proceedings.