The Prosecutor’s Office of Aktobe Region prevented unjustified expenditure of budgetary funds totalling over 3.2 billion tenge.
According to the department’s press service, these relate to projects for the construction and repair of roads, as well as landscaping and other socially significant facilities.
One of the identified cases was an unjustified increase in the estimated cost of a contract for medium repairs to the road along Aliya Moldagulova Avenue in Aktobe.
In 2022, the city’s housing and communal services department and Nurly Zhol-7 LLP entered into a contract worth 1 billion tenge. However, the contractor later recalculated the project cost without sufficient justification, resulting in the contract amount rising to 1.3 billion tenge.
Following a prosecutor’s inspection, the contract cost was reduced by 300 million tenge.
The prosecutor’s office noted that oversight of the use of budgetary funds in road construction and landscaping is under constant monitoring.
For context, it was previously reported that over nine months of the current year, the department of internal state audit identified violations in state bodies of the Zhambyl Region totalling 12.6 billion tenge.
Officials most often made errors during tenders — they inflated requirements for participants, incorrectly calculated prices, and published incomplete information about procurements.