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In the Akmola region, police stopped a vehicle transporting over 800 litres of herbicides without documents confirming the legality of the transport or the origin of the cargo. An investigation is underway, and based on its results, a procedural decision will be made.

A forest fire has once again occurred on the territory of the state forest nature reserve "Semey Ormany" in the Borodulikha district of the Abai region. More than 250 people, aircraft, and dozens of pieces of equipment have been deployed to extinguish it, and 190 children have been evacuated from the nearby children's camp "DosbolLike".

Two elderly people were injured after a pyrotechnic device was set off in a branch of Halyk Bank in Pavlodar. According to the police, the pensioners followed the instructions of telephone scammers, who persuaded them to ignite a firecracker placed inside a cake.

The UK Crown Prosecution Service has frozen an elite mansion in the Highgate area of London, valued at $32.7 million. The property belongs to Yu Cong, a Chinese-born individual with Cambodian citizenship. The restrictive measures have been imposed due to suspicion that the property was purchased with funds of illegal origin. However, no criminal charges have been brought against the owner in the United Kingdom.

In the Baikonyr district of Astana, there was an explosion of a gas-air mixture in a tandoori samsa preparation room located on the market grounds. Four people were injured in the incident, including one child, with no fatalities.

In the Turkestan region, several illegal schemes related to tobacco smuggling, extortion of funds, and illicit capital outflows have been shut down. Pre-trial investigations have been launched into specific episodes, and the total volume of identified illicit fund outflows reached approximately 200 billion tenge.

After a road traffic accident (RTA) involving a lorry transporting nectarines on the Samara — Shymkent highway in the West Kazakhstan Region (WKR), local residents began to salvage the undamaged cargo. According to eyewitnesses, arguments and scuffles broke out among people as they collected the fruit scattered along the road.

A resident of Astana posted a series of messages on Threads in which she claimed to have complained for years about the operation of a hotel located near residential buildings. According to her, one of the hotel's guests gave birth to a child in a room and left it in a sewer drain.

In the case of the death of 37-year-old police officer Aslan Alserov, whose burnt body was found on 23 June in the mountains of the Almaty region, new statements have emerged from the defence of the minor defendants. Lawyers claim that during the investigation, pressure may have been put on the teenagers, and the first interrogation of one of them took place without a lawyer present.

An entrepreneur in Shymkent was unjustly issued a notice to rectify violations amounting to 466.5 million tenge instead of the 28 million tenge actually identified. After the prosecutor's office intervened, the illegal notice was cancelled, and two employees of the tax authority were held administratively liable.