Quite recently, a new video was released on the YouTube channel "Obazhayu", in which the channel's creator, Askhat Niyazov, examined how the East Kazakhstan Region had changed one year after the resignation of Danial Akhmetov.
Among other things, the journalist visited the famous Left Bank Prophylactorium, popularly known as Danial Akhmetov's residence, which is currently under the management of the regional akimat.
The editorial team of the Telegram channel "They're already on their way for us" noted that two Gondola Mice Versailles 2136/V armchairs, with a total cost of around 10 million tenge, appeared in the frame.
Our editorial team also noticed some interior items in the so-called prophylactorium.
For example, the cost of an ordinary lamp (photo 1) starts from 870,000 tenge. A floor lamp (photo 2) set the residence's owner back roughly 1.5 million tenge.
The approximate cost of a bedside table made of beech and Karelian birch burl (photo 3) in one of the numerous bedrooms could exceed 850,000 tenge.
Another small bedroom (photo 4), decorated in an Italian style, could have cost around 9.5 million tenge. The cost of one bed fluctuates around 3.3 million tenge, the bedside tables around 980,000 tenge, the mirror no less than 1.17 million tenge, and the 'modest' dressing table (photo 5) – over 3.1 million tenge.
In the study, there is an office armchair (photo 6) costing approximately 1.5 million tenge. And another bedroom is adorned with a bed (photo 7) worth over 1.1 million tenge and bedside tables (photo 8) costing roughly 744,000 tenge each.
Most likely, many more interesting items are gathering dust in Mr. Akhmetov's residence, items that could become exhibits in a hypothetical museum of recent Kazakh corruption and impunity.
It is worth recalling that for several years now, public activists have been insisting on transferring the institution to the management of the Department for Coordination of Employment and Social Programmes, so that in this elite residence, it is not high-ranking officials who restore their health from their arduous labours at the expense of the budget, but rather representatives of the most needy categories of the population who rest and recuperate.
However, the idea, which found no response from local authorities under Akhmetov, continues to find none under the new akim, Kosherbayev, and therefore the state continues to pay for the upkeep of the costly 'Left Bank Prophylactorium of the Office of the Akim of the East Kazakhstan Region'.