In Ust-Kamenogorsk, a verdict was passed on the former head of JSC "Regional Centre for Public-Private Partnership of East Kazakhstan Region", Daulet Batyrbayev, and other defendants in a case concerning the embezzlement of budget funds, illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity, and the legalisation of criminal proceeds.
Online data has emerged regarding the criminal record of lawyer Murat Adam, who is defending ORDA editor-in-chief Gulnara Bazhkenova, currently under house arrest. The information surfaced after the elections to the Republican Bar Association, where the lawyer presented his past in a more favourable light than it actually was.