In the Turkistan region, a citizen of the Republic of Moldova has been sentenced. He was found guilty of attempting to bribe a police officer.
According to the regional court press service, the incident occurred on a highway. During their patrol, police officers stopped a Volvo truck with Armenian licence plates. During the inspection, it emerged that the vehicle had an unpaid fine of 583,366 tenge.
The driver — a citizen of Moldova — offered the police officers 10,000 tenge and a Bosch brand kitchen blender worth 3,833 tenge. The police recorded the attempted bribe, and criminal proceedings were initiated against the driver.
During the investigation, the accused admitted his guilt and entered into a procedural agreement with the investigation. In the end, the inter-district court of Turkistan found him guilty and imposed a fine of 15 times the amount of the proposed bribe (155,621 tenge).
It is worth recalling that at the end of March, travellers from Belarus published a video online in which they stated that they were driving along a highway in the Turkistan region without breaking traffic rules, but were stopped by patrol officers.
The police demanded that the tourists produce a local technical inspection certificate and claimed they had been caught on camera. However, they did not provide any evidence. The law enforcement officers promised that after receiving 200,000 tenge from them, the tourists would not be stopped again. Later, when the incident became public knowledge, the police officers were dismissed.