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The Pavlodar Regional Prosecutor's Office has removed from its official website a press release reporting the department's long-standing involvement in supporting the EkibastuzFerroAlloys project. According to available information, this plant is linked to the circle of the Nigmatulin brothers.

Nursultan Nazarbayev's former son-in-law, Rakhat Aliyev, asked the American side for assistance with safe relocation to the United States. At the same time, he hoped to recover around $2 billion (over 1 trillion tenge) which, he claimed, his family lost following the confiscation of assets in Kazakhstan. This came to light from published letters of American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In Turkestan, a guilty verdict has been handed down in a case involving the embezzlement of budget funds allocated for subsidising the wages of employed citizens.

Residents of Shymkent are reporting a sharp deterioration in air quality and describing the situation as an "environmental catastrophe".

In November, in the Aktobe region, law enforcement officers exposed the activities of a group of individuals who were involved in the theft and transportation of primary oil refining products using forged documents.