At a meeting of the audit commission for the North Kazakhstan region, it became known that the balance sheet of the Housing and Public Utilities Department of the Akkayyn District has included special equipment that has never been used for more than six years.
According to ‘Qazaqstan Media’, the department’s balance sheet since 2017 includes an excavator-loader worth 2.8 million tenge, two ‘Belarus’ tractors valued at 16.9 million tenge, and a ‘Batyr SK’ tractor worth 40 million tenge.
Furthermore, in 2021, the Housing and Public Utilities Department purchased road marking equipment for 794,200 tenge. None of this equipment has been used since it was added to the balance sheet of the Akkayyn District Akimat.
According to the deputy akim of the Akkayyn District, Yevgeny Ostertak, this situation arose due to bureaucracy. He stated that tenders for transferring the equipment into trust management were held but did not take place.
At the same time, he claims that the district cannot find drivers with the appropriate licence category to operate the special equipment.
‘We are looking for an entrepreneur or a limited liability partnership that could take the equipment into trust management and use it for the benefit of our district,’ explained Yevgeny Ostertak.
The audit commission has given the Akkayyn District Akimat three months to finally take measures regarding the transfer of the equipment. If this does not happen, action will be taken against the district's leadership.
It must be assumed that the commission did not consider the district leadership's unconvincing arguments to be worthy of attention. It is only strange that this situation did not become grounds for a more serious investigation, involving supervisory authorities, since there is clear evidence of damage to the state budget.
It is unlikely to surprise anyone if, as a result of a more thorough inspection, it emerges that the communal property was used for purposes not intended.