In the Samara district of the East Kazakhstan region, the head of the district department of land relations was brought to administrative responsibility for posting inaccurate data on the official website of the akimat.
According to the press service of the department, the area of available hayfields on the website of the akimat apparatus was listed as 180.34 hectares instead of 193.4 hectares (an understatement of 13 hectares), and pastures as 30.62 hectares instead of 30 hectares (an overstatement of 0.62 hectares).
The prosecutor's office initiated a case under Part 1 of Article 456-2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Kazakhstan ("Dissemination of false information by a state body"). On 25 June, the court found the official guilty and imposed a fine of 117,960 tenge.
It is noted that this is the first case in the country where an official has been punished for publishing false information on an official website.
The case appears particularly paradoxical against the backdrop that state bodies regularly remind citizens of the need to trust only official sources of information.
When the very bearers of 'the truth in the first instance' are found to be spreading inaccurate data, it inevitably calls into question the argument regarding the unconditional reliability of official information.