Heads of departments of the Ministry of Finance of Almaty and Astana are suspected of receiving bribes from a businessman for a favourable resolution of tax audits.
"They are suspected of having access to official information about an unjustified additional tax assessment of 570 million tenge against a company, which was subject to a full reduction, and through an intermediary they approached a representative of this firm and demanded a monetary reward from him," said the press service of Anti-Corruption.
Then, under the pretext of resolving this issue, the officials received 68 million tenge from the businessman.
With the sanction of the court, the suspects were placed under "house arrest" with the use of electronic surveillance devices. Anti-Corruption is investigating the involvement of other officials of the department in the criminal offence.
Recall, in September it was reported that in 2023, 1,692 corruption crimes were registered in Kazakhstan. The amount of damages compensated was 285.1 billion tenge.
In addition, we published a list indicating which departments' employees were convicted of corruption last year. Incidentally, the Ministry of Finance ranked third.