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In the Abai region, the court sentenced a former akim of a rural district, who was found guilty of embezzling budget funds allocated for public works. The amount of damage exceeded 500 thousand tenge.

In the Kostanay region, the police, in cooperation with the prosecutor's office, have shut down a group suspected of illegally harvesting and selling timber.

In the Zhambyl region, officers of the National Security Committee detained senior operative commissioner of the Baizak district police department, Major Zhasulan Yelubai. He is suspected of receiving 700 thousand tenge for promising to drop a criminal case concerning livestock theft.

The Ministry of Health has sent a pre-trial claim to public figure Didar Smagulov following his publication about alleged corruption schemes in vaccine procurement. The Ministry states that the information disseminated is untrue and damages the department's reputation.

The Majilis approved in the second reading the new Construction Code and the accompanying draft law "On amendments and additions to some legislative acts on architecture, town planning and construction".