In Shymkent, a court returned to state ownership a land plot of 54.7 hectares valued at 164.2 million tenge, which had been illegally transferred into private ownership in violation of land legislation.
"The land plot was planned to be seized for state needs as part of the reconstruction of an oil refinery. However, an unscheduled inspection by the Department for Land Resource Management of Shymkent City of the Committee for Land Resources Management of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan revealed that it had been transferred into private ownership with gross violations of Article 48 of the Land Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan", the statement said.
The transfer of the land occurred without holding tenders (competitions, auctions), which is a direct violation of the law. The department's lawsuit was upheld by the specialised inter-district economic court of Shymkent. The decision has entered into legal force.
As a result, the unjustified expenditure of 164.2 million tenge of state funds was prevented.
Recall that earlier it was reported that in 2024, the executive bodies of Kazakhstan returned over 2 million hectares of land to state ownership.
In June, it became known that prosecutors of the Almaty region returned to the state 155 plots of unused land covering an area of 12.5 thousand hectares valued at 2.5 billion tenge.
In August, it was reported that in the Aktobe region, agricultural land plots covering an area of 30 thousand hectares were returned to state ownership.
Later, in the Kostanay region, a land plot of 15 hectares with an estimated value of over 254 million tenge was returned to the state.
In February of this year, the prosecutor's office of the Nura district of the Karaganda region returned to the state an unused agricultural plot covering an area of 46,271 hectares with a cadastral value of over 258 million tenge.
In early March, prosecutors of the North Kazakhstan region returned to state ownership 8 unused land plots with a total area of over 8.3 thousand hectares valued at 95.7 million tenge.