The Main Transport Prosecutor's Office has identified an illegal channel for importing lorries from China that do not meet environmental requirements.
According to the press service of the department, vehicles worth over 150 million tenge were attempted to be brought into Kazakhstan using forged documents.
The criminal investigation has been assigned to the pre-trial investigation department of the Main Transport Prosecutor's Office.
It will be recalled that in January, the Supreme Audit Chamber (SAC) estimated the potential budget losses from shadow imports of cars at more than 71 billion tenge.
In a document from SAC Chairman Alikhan Smailov addressed to Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov, it was reported that from 2021 to 2023, imports of goods by individuals declared through customs forms increased 6.5 times. Moreover, 94% of these were vehicles worth 1.4 trillion tenge.