Court No. 2 in Aktobe heard a criminal case against a local resident who was accused of repeated fraud involving the registration of vehicles under Russian registration.
According to the department's press service, in May 2023, the defendant met one of the victims at a specialised service centre (SpetsTsON) and offered "help" in processing documents for registering a car with Russian registration onto Kazakh state plates.
For his services, he demanded 665,000 tenge. The victim agreed and handed over 450,000 tenge in cash, and transferred 215,000 tenge via the Kaspi Bank app.
The defendant pocketed the money and spent it on personal needs. He deceived four other victims in the same way, causing total material damage amounting to 3,360,000 tenge.
Ultimately, the court found the man guilty and sentenced him to 3 years of restricted liberty. The civil claims based on the victims' petitions were left unexamined.
It should be recalled that cases involving SpetsTsONs and vehicle registration procedures have repeatedly become the subject of investigations and court proceedings.
For instance, in December of last year, the Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM) concluded a criminal case against the former head of the SpetsTsON in Ust-Kamenogorsk. The suspect received bribes for assistance in passing the theoretical exam to obtain a driving licence. The criminal income from these actions exceeded 32 million tenge.
In March of this year, in the Zhambyl region, a group of individuals were convicted for illegally selling driving licences at the SpetsTsON in Taraz.
In May, it was reported that over the past three years, territorial departments of the AFM had investigated 88 criminal cases related to the illegal registration of over 1,800 vehicles, avoiding payment of the primary registration fee totalling 11.8 billion tenge.