A court in Atyrau has sentenced a group of individuals involved in a scheme to cash out funds and evade taxes using fake invoices.
According to the press service of the Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA), the organiser of the scheme was A.S. Tyuyakpayev, and his accomplices were S.A. Argalash and A.S. Bulatov. Through fake invoices totalling 1.8 billion tenge, they evaded taxes, causing the state damages of more than 590 million tenge.
In addition, Tyuyakpayev laundered 342 million tenge in criminal proceeds by transferring funds through controlled companies to his wife's account.
By court order, the defendants' assets – 4 cars, 2 apartments, and a residential house – were seized. During the investigation, the convicted individuals voluntarily compensated 236 million tenge.
The court found Tyuyakpayev, Argalash, and Bulatov guilty and sentenced them to imprisonment for terms ranging from 2 years and 4 months to 4 years. The court also ordered the confiscation of an apartment in Atyrau and a car, purchased with illegal income, for the benefit of the state.