In Astana, workers from the Specialised Service Centre, police officers, and civilians who were involved in the illegal registration of cars imported from abroad without paying duties and fees have been convicted.
According to the Anti-Corruption Service's press office, the defendants were accused of creating and leading an organised group, causing damage to the state, unlawfully entering and deleting vehicle information in the "SC 'Web-Module'" and "IIS SSC" information systems, as well as falsifying written forms of transactions.
It is reported that from January to May 2022, the criminal group illegally registered 462 cars imported from abroad. The total damage to the state amounted to 1.2 billion tenge.
As a result, the court convicted 32 people. The organisers of the criminal group – the head of Specialised Service Centre No. 2 in Astana, Sh. Bukebayev, and Specialised Service Centre specialists A. Tam-Ogly and Kh. Tam-Ogly – were each sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Five members of the group received 6 years' imprisonment. Seventeen 'helpers' were given various sentences of imprisonment and restriction of liberty.
Furthermore, several other accomplices were sentenced to terms ranging from 2 years and 6 months of restricted freedom to 3 years and 6 months of imprisonment. They were also stripped of their ranks with a lifelong ban from holding positions in the civil service.
It should be recalled that earlier, the Anti-Corruption Service, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted a monitoring of the activities of the specialised service centres, as a result of which the Ministry of Internal Affairs took a number of measures: it closed access to altering vehicle data in its departments, introduced mandatory biometrics for vehicle registration, implemented video recording of the entire testing process, and changed the regulations for retaking exams.
Incidentally, we recently reported that in April 2024, during an inspection on the border with China, several dozen units of Chinese machinery that did not meet the Euro-4 and Euro-5 environmental standards were discovered.