In the Merke District Court of the Zhambyl Region, a verdict was pronounced for seven employees of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP). They were accused of group fraud and document forgery.
According to the press service of the region's courts, two company directors, using their official positions, embezzled budget funds allocated as subsidies to increase crop yield and quality in the plant-growing sector.
Under the scheme, the LLP and a local farm purchased apple tree saplings of various varieties. When signing the sales contracts, a specific number of saplings was stated.
In turn, five LLP employees, on the instructions of the management, swapped the first pages of the contracts, exaggerating the number of saplings to obtain large subsidies. The amount of damage caused to the state exceeded 373 million tenge.
The company directors partially admitted their guilt. They disagreed with the amount of material damage, considering it inflated, and asked for a punishment not involving imprisonment. The LLP employees fully admitted their guilt and agreed with the prosecutor's arguments.
Ultimately, the court found the company directors guilty and sentenced one of them to 7 years' imprisonment with a lifetime ban from holding positions in the civil service and quasi-public sector entities.
The second was sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment with a 10-year ban on holding positions in the sphere of control and supervision over the financial market and financial organisations, in state organisations and quasi-public sector entities. The company employees were sentenced to between 3 and 5 years of restriction of liberty.
Earlier, the prosecutor's office of the Sarysu District of the Zhambyl Region uncovered the embezzlement of subsidies for water supply to farms totalling 38.1 million tenge.