The head of an agricultural production cooperative (APC) has been detained in the North Kazakhstan Region. He is suspected of embezzling subsidies.
According to the press service of the Department of the Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) for the North Kazakhstan Region, the APC, using fake documents, received more than 50 million tenge in subsidies for processing dairy products.
"To confirm expenses, fake documents on mutual settlements for the purchase of raw milk from private entrepreneurs and deliberately false information about the production of butter were submitted to the Department of Agriculture (DoA)," the statement said.
As a result, the court declared the milk supply transactions invalid. During the investigation, FMA officers found that the suspect used the illegally obtained subsidies to buy a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado 150 off-roader, which he registered to a trusted person to hide it from possible confiscation.
A court ordered the seizure of the vehicle. The court also placed the suspect in custody for a period of 2 months.
Recall that in December 2023, a deputy of the Kobda district maslikhat of the Aktobe region, Asylbek Nurgeldin, appeared in court on suspicion of fraud with state programme funds. According to the prosecution, Nurgeldin misled the state by appropriating subsidies totalling 457 million tenge.
In September 2024, the FMA uncovered instances of fraud in obtaining loans for breeding pedigree cattle (breeding stock) at the Aktobe branch of JSC "Agrarian Credit Corporation". Representatives of four peasant farms (PFs), using fake documents, cashed out subsidies and credit funds allocated under the state programme "Sybaga", but did not purchase the livestock. As a result, the state suffered damage of nearly 1 billion tenge.
In October, the prosecutor's office of the Turkestan Region uncovered a scheme to embezzle 203 million tenge allocated as subsidies for livestock development. A resident of the Sauran district used the electronic digital signatures (EDS) of 20 people. Over three years, he received state subsidies for the purchase of cattle, which were not actually acquired.