In Court No. 2 of Aktau, a civil case is being heard regarding compensation for losses caused by the illegal allocation of a land plot on the coast of the Caspian Sea. The plaintiff claims that he purchased the plot in good faith, but later the sales contract was declared invalid, and the land was returned to state ownership.
According to Lada.kz, the man bought the plot from a well-known regional entrepreneur — a former deputy of the Mangystau Regional Maslikhat.
The new owner planned to build a tourist facility on the coast and had already incurred costs for developing the area. However, it later emerged that the akimat resolution, on the basis of which the land was allocated to the previous owner, was declared illegal by the court.
"The akimat provided the land plot bypassing the tender — allegedly for the expansion of an existing facility, for which, it turned out, no occupancy permit had been issued. We also do not rule out possible collusion between akimat officials and the original recipient of the land," said legal consultant Abai Kaztuganov.
As it became known, the story began back in 2021. At that time, the entrepreneur approached the akimat with a request to allocate a plot on the Caspian shore for the construction of a tourist complex. The architecture department told him that there were no available plots, after which he purchased 12 plots of four hundred square metres each.
However, during the development process, it turned out that the acquired area did not reach the sea: between it and the shore lay other private properties.
After this, the buyer tried to cancel the deal and recover his invested funds, but the seller offered him other plots — the very ones that, as the court later established, had been obtained in violation of land legislation.
According to the plaintiff's representative, in the spring of 2021, the former deputy registered these lands as an "expansion" of his own plot. However, he soon changed their designated use to allow the construction of a holiday resort, dividing them into 64 separate plots for subsequent sale.
The current claim amount is 94 million tenge. The defendants in the case are listed as the Aktau akimat and the former owner of the plot.